Mr Coleman was a successful mayor, a skilled administrator and a thoughtful wonk.
Because he was not a skilled administrator, many abuses appeared in the bureau, much of the staff being poorly trained.
Blair gave him a mega-department - environment, regions, transport - in 1997, one that would have been big even for a skilled administrator - which Prescott was not.
MPs complained that Mills would not know enough about parliamentary privilege and procedure, whereas Bercow argued that the running of a modern parliament required a skilled administrator.
The fit was a good one, as Steinbrück belonged to the more business-friendly right wing of his party, and he was regarded as a skilled administrator even by his political opponents.
Stanley Brezenoff, a former deputy mayor and city hospitals chief with a reputation as a skilled administrator and a troubleshooter, has emerged as a leading contender for the job of New York City schools chancellor.
Although he arrived in New York with a solid reputation as a skilled administrator, Archbishop Edward M. Egan showed yesterday that he saw his new role as being a teacher to his vast flock, too, fulfilling an essential role of a priest.
Mr. Fischer was recognized as a skilled administrator when he took over as Baltimore's superintendent of public instruction, but his low-key, unbending approach to desegregation elevated him to the status of an educational statesman in the eyes of educators and civil rights groups.
Trained in the law, Mantel can see the understated heroism in the skilled administrator's day-to-day decisions in service of a well-ordered civil society — not of a medieval fief based on war and not, heaven help us, a utopia.
The president has chosen a 15-year veteran of NIH, a skilled administrator and communicator who has many supporters in the scientific community.
However, the inability to rely on a centralised authentication infrastructure, the openness of the environment and the absence of an administrator (it is assumed to be too expensive to have a skilled administrator at hand due to the large number of peers) challenge the use of legacy authentication mechanisms.
