When he became chief executive in 1993, he dispensed with a remote executive suite.
She was Amy Hogg, his remote executive assistant, who lives in Kelowna, British Columbia.
The article was a largely negative portrayal of her as a remote, secretive executive who appoints schoolmates or other friends to state office, demands personal loyalty, pursues vendettas, fires officials who cross her and blurs the line "between government and personal grievance".
But he said that he had "failed" by being such a remote chief executive.
Instead of just supporting a handful of highly priced executives, remote access had to go companywide.
Three banks have 45% of the counterparty exposure, Citigroup, UBS and Merrill Lynch, making the chances of a banking industrywide rescue remote, even bank executives acknowledge.
IN a corporate conference room in Plainview, a pair of middle-age executives demonstrate remote-controlled robots with glee; both acknowledge they're lucky to be playing with toys and calling it work.
"People who work for free are far hungrier than anybody who has a salary, so they're going to outperform, they're going to try to please, they're going to be creative," says Kelly Fallis, chief executive of Remote Stylist, a Toronto and New York-based startup that provides Web-based interior design services.
In a way that, indeed, dates back to the days of royal Versailles, the usual French pattern has been to have both a remote monarch and an executive cardinal: a kingly figure as President with an effective intellectual and administrative figure as Prime Minister, a King Louis XIII with a Cardinal Richelieu.
The early market for their high-tech remote monitoring systems, the companies' executives say, will be integrated health providers in the United States and abroad, insurers and specialized disease-management companies.
