She referred to an Apple executive as a "minion".
Steinbrenner used Clyde King, a team executive, as a messenger to deliver the news.
For two decades it has generally portrayed the chief executive as a venal, justice-obstructing philanderer.
It also hired Connie Voldstad, a former top Merrill executive, as a strategic adviser.
For months, industry speculation has centered on Roger Faxon, EMI's chief executive, as a possible leader for Warner.
Some administration advisers have talked of creating a job for an executive as a counselor to Mr. Obama.
He went on to become an advertising executive, as a founding partner of Kallir, Philips, Ross, Inc.
The original described Monitor's chief executive as a former private equity financier seconded from a private health business.
It even recruited an uncle of Anheuser's chief executive as a nominee for its rival slate of directors.
But in Chicago, intervention and accountability systems were introduced earlier, in 1996, by Paul Vallas, the former schools chief executive, as a way to shake up failing schools.
In an e-mail to her boss, Leslie Moonves, Carolyn K. Reidy, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster, dismissed an Apple executive as a "minion".
