"executive mandate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a directive given by an executive branch of government, usually relating to some policy decision. For example, "The president issued an executive mandate requiring all federal agencies to reduce expenses in the next fiscal year."
This can be done by legislation, executive mandate or — in some places, like California — referendum.
An executive mandate that contracted companies report misuse of taxpayers' dollars to the Justice Department somehow managed to exempt work performed overseas.
Katniss, who for years has bagged game to keep her family from starving, was created for rough stuff — for beating the odds and the state, for hunting squirrel and people both — far rougher than Mr. Ross often seems comfortable with, perhaps because of disposition, inclination or some behind-the-scenes executive mandate.
Reviewing "The Hunger Games" for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote that Mr. Ross "has a way of smoothing even modestly irregular edges" in the film, and that the lead character of Katniss may be "far rougher than Mr. Ross often seems comfortable with, perhaps because of disposition, inclination or some behind-the-scenes executive mandate".
What follows are some of the ways in which you can build that basis for you and your team to innovate inside the confines of a more mature organization — to secure an executive mandate, to give yourself the space to be structurally creative in your intrapreneurial endeavor, and to ensure that your capital is patient.
Part of the reason that few top teams question assumptions is that doing so goes against the nature of the senior executive mandate: The CEO and his or her executive team are paid to develop a vision and execute it with resolve.
When you're building an internal platform, it's certainly possible to achieve high adoption rates using executive mandates.
In a recent article in the Washington Post, Department of Education leadership suggested that the loan changes were not executive mandates, but rather, changes enacted by lower-ranking officials which went unchecked by policy makers in the Department and within the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
He was succeeded by Andrew Lack, a former television executive, whose mandate has been to slash costs.
We want to preserve the aspects that make it popular but we'd like to give the BBC Executive a mandate to be more ambitious, including during the daytime peak schedule, even though we recognise that this carries with it a risk that audiences fall.
We want to preserve the aspects that make it popular but we'd like to give the BBC Executive a mandate to be more ambitious, including during the daytime peak schedule, even though we recognise that this carries with it a risk that audiences fall," he added.
