He formed a senior executive task force to look into the problem.
At Tyson, just a few years after the formation of the initial senior management task force on leadership development, all of John Tyson's direct reports are fully committed to the succession-planning process.
He is not the most senior official tasked with the investigation, Nair says.
Those close to him say he behaves as a chief executive, setting ministers and senior bureaucrats tasks with deadlines and expecting them to report back on time.
As a rule, senior officers, tasked with the mass relocation of men, have neither the time nor the inclination to weep.
She was named the senior commissioner tasked with overseeing the agency's enforcement division as it investigates MF Global, the brokerage firm that blew up in October 2011 after misusing more than $1 billion in customer money.
At one European global financial firm, I saw heavily lawyered internal communications about an internal problem managed so poorly that managers across the enterprise collectively lost respect for the senior executive tasked with handling it.
In addition, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved legislation directing President Bush to form a senior-level task force to put in place an international strategy to deal with the avian flu and coordinate policy among our government agencies.
So deep and serious are the problems, Mr. Gates said, that he has asked a former defense secretary, James R. Schlesinger, to head "a senior-level task force" to recommend improvements in the safekeeping of weapons, delivery vehicles and other sensitive items.
While affirming the clubs' distinctive strengths, especially the 10 close-knit communities they create for juniors and seniors, the task force identified a number of areas of concern to both fans and critics of the Street.
