But he said the club is making day-to-day business decisions autonomously.
By contrast, rivals such as John Wren at Omnicom and the recently retired Phil Geier at Interpublic have been fairly passive bosses of holding companies that let their operating businesses function autonomously.Sir Martin's hands-on style has mostly brought benefits.
There is no design czar instead, LVMH's 50 freestanding business units operate autonomously.
PLA business units operating autonomously have been accused of counterfeiting compact discs, sneaking ballistic missiles out of China to Iran and smuggling in luxury cars from South Korea.
A startup based in Petah Tikva, Israel, Airobotics, has scored the right to fly drones autonomously for business purposes in Israel.
What's more, AT&T's dedicated business unit acts more autonomously than the consumer side, meaning you can find group deals and plans for biz that you can't for personal users.
Cargill let these businesses operate separately and autonomously, each one unaware of (or unconcerned with) goings-on elsewhere in the empire.
The days when a computer intelligence will be able to autonomously run a business or act as your effective assistant are still far off.
Despite interlocking financings and other relationships, the two businesses run more or less autonomously.
Effectively having a lean startup (the Lab) which can move quickly, operating autonomously of the main business, but also directly inputting into in-store experience, product developments and therefore the overarching business and brand strategies.
