Such people require both technical and managerial skills to oversee programmes that increasingly cross divisions within a company.
The American, an unusually scholarly banker, had been picked by Mr David-Weill for his administrative skills, to oversee the integration of the main parts of the bank.
Moreover, managers need to have a set of skills to oversee the work done by others, and to improve the coordination of different functions in an organization using conceptual, human and technical skills to effectively manage the organization as a whole and oversee the work of employees.
As your article shows, the only ones truly managing an at-home classroom are those few parents with time and skill enough to oversee their children's work full time.
The assurance streak seems to run especially deep in very successful businesspeople who equate the skills needed to oversee big companies with the skills needed to manage cities, states and countries.
The program was designed to help train new supervisors in the skills needed to oversee other workers.
They lack the skills and experience to oversee its complex operations, critics say.
Some investors questioned whether Mr. Cote, the chairman and chief executive of Honeywell International, and Ms. Futter, the president of the American Museum of Natural History, had the right skills and experience to oversee the bank's risk management.
"We've seen some red [warning signs] in terms of the readiness of the offices of DfID to prepare for the scale of funding that has suddenly come through their doors and the skills they need to oversee that funding effectively," said Mark Foster, a commissioner at Icai and author of the report.
Time Warner's chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, and his deputy, Phil Kent, the head of Turner Broadcasting, were known to have sought candidates with the right combination of management skills, programming expertise and journalistic credibility to oversee CNN's many channels and Web sites.
