The women who were active members of the Special Operations Executive, created by Churchill in 1940 to spark revolt in Germany's conquered territories, hold an enduring fascination.
In June 2010, Ghonim, an Egyptian-born Google executive, created a Facebook page to protest a man's death at the hands of the Egyptian police.
In 1997, Mr. Scrushy, one of the highest-paid chief executives in health care, and another HealthSouth executive created a private investment fund.
The agency changed its forecast after examining a four-year financial plan that Thomas R. Suozzi, Nassau's new county executive, created to close the county's budget gap.
"I do think we've seen the rise of this invisible executive creating the truth which the rest of the country lives by," Oborne says.
He began as an effective executive, creating programs for the old and the jobless, and leading a downtown development program that had all the benefits and gaucheries of business in the roaring eighties.
At the lower layer, a system executive creates multiple virtual machines.
For instance, an executive creating a PowerPoint pitch can hire a designer or a proofreader without leaving the application.
That alone, says Richmond McCoy, Urban America's chief executive, created 80 new jobs in a community that is 71% black and 6% Latino, and where the annual median household income is $21,000.
In May Dayton and his new partner, snowboarding pal Jake Winebaum, Walt Disney's former top Internet executive, created Santa Monica, Calif.-based Ecompanies to "incubate" ideas into Internet companies they will partly own.
