He is seeking to portray himself both as an advocate of transparency and a resolute chief executive.
Mr. Obama reupholstered Mr. Bush's two mahogany chairs in caramel-colored leather and kept the desk, called the Resolute, that every chief executive since President Rutherford B. Hayes — except Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford — has used, though some used it in the White House residence.
Those issues came to a head at a meeting this month of major conservative donors convened by the billionaire hedge fund executive Paul Singer, a resolute Trump opponent who has opined that Mr. Trump's campaign proposals would cause a "widespread global depression" if enacted.
"We walked away — this is our resolute decision," Murdoch, Fox's chief executive, said during a conference call to discuss the media giant's earnings.
Dickerson thinks she was afraid he'd become the stereotypical male executive: alpha, topdown, rigidly resolute.
So, barring a resolute and inviting effort on the part of executives, the valuable gift of feedback goes unopened.
In a rich and various life, as a stage director, orchestra conductor, Presidential speechwriter, vice-president of the American Stock Exchange, art collector, and corporate executive, Gordon Stewart had always been a resolute urbanite.
The two agents, their pasts thoroughly erased by their arduous training in Britain's Special Operations Executive (and by the author's resolute silence about their prewar lives), enter the novel under their code names, Tamar and Dart.
Behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office signing jumbo-size executive orders, pushing his red button to summon a butler with Diet Coke or flashing a thumbs-up from his high-backed cherry leather chair.
Incensed at what they deemed unfair combat, executives at Disney headquarters in Burbank, Calif., grew more resolute.
