Friends say Mr. Davis has an executive personality and chafes at being one of 435 decision makers in the House.
it's just as easy to picture narcissist CEOs who aggressively invest in new technologies that don't pan out so well and who severely harm their firms as a result". In this study, we adopt the logic of upper echelons theory to expand understanding of how executive personality shapes organizational responses to radical change.
Some Giuliani aides and national Republican figures concluded that his interest in the campaign was flagging, as although he was desirous of winning in political combat against a Clinton, he was by nature an executive personality and the prospect of serving as one of a hundred legislators was unappealing to him.
Companies do face risks when they tie an executive's personality to their businesses, advertising executives said.
BUSINESS DAY An article on Friday about the risks faced by brands that tie an executive's personality to their businesses erroneously included one company among those that spend more on advertising than Men's Wearhouse, whose founder and promotional face, George Zimmer, was recently fired.
"Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company appeared to captivate some of the most senior political figures in the land, by the force of the chief executive's personality as much as by the spin and profile she created for the charity," the report said.
That executive's personality, skills and experience did not mesh well with the job at hand.
Likewise, the Siri "executive assistant" personality now has branded characteristics as a positive experience in the minds of users.
When we're shooting content featuring a client, we reserve a large portion of our pre-production time to developing content that aligns with the executive's personality.
They undertook: a medical interview and examination; physical fitness testing; extensive cognitive testing (reasoning, memory, speed of information processing, and executive function); personality, quality of life and other psycho-social questionnaires; and a food frequency questionnaire.
The interviews were semistructured and included questions about changes in behaviour and cognitive function (eg, memory, intellectual ability, visuospatial function, language and executive function), personality changes, psychiatric symptoms, activities of daily living, and in the case of dementia, onset age and disease course, as described previously.
