Reminded that they are poor, individuals "showed less flexible intelligence, less executive control.
But applications to many part-time time and flexible programs — including executive M.B.A.'s — are in decline, according to the annual survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council, which oversees the GMAT standardized entrance exam for many business schools.
Be flexible, said Kip Hollister, chief executive of Hollister Inc., a staffing firm in Boston.
"We are now, as a work force, becoming much more flexible," said Jon Banner, the executive producer of "World News".
It did not, thanks to an agreement that G.M. struck with the United Auto Workers for flexible scheduling, one G.M. executive said.
"With the old model, you never had to track flexible capacity," said chief executive Ed Byrne, who sold his last company Hosting 365 to Sungard for an undisclosed amount in 2010.
If there is one type of juror that consultants appear to want in white-collar cases, it is risk-takers, people who understand that rules are flexible and appreciate that executives sometimes have to break them.
The arrival of the more flexible personal computers, Silicon Valley executives argue, is aimed at permitting the industry to make big inroads into the consumer market as digital television replaces conventional analog TV, a move that is expected to lead Americans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years on things like new big-screen displays and home-theater-in-a-box sets.
Programs intended for working executives are designed to be flexible for this very reason: such executives cannot take much time out for study overseas.
In foreign affairs, however, the chief executive should enjoy flexible powers to grapple with challenges abroad for which Congress is ill suited.
