Sentence examples for tough executive from inspiring English sources

They say he is a tough executive with an eye for financial detail, but he also understood that the early days of the Internet demanded growth, not profits.

Unable to find positions locally, other people are making tough "executive commutes" to New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia, spending weeknights away from home, he said.

He had no power base in operations, and he was working for a chief executive, Mr. Levin, who had a reputation as a tough executive who would not tolerate any potential rival easily.

And then there is Albert J. Dunlap, a man who loved his reputation as Chainsaw Al, the tough executive who fired thousands of people and bragged that he deserved the $100 million he got when Scott Paper, a company he was credited with turning around, was sold to Kimberly-Clark in 1995.

Some smart, tough executives tell why: Cathleen Black President Hearst Magazines Division (Chicago's South Side).

Kayaking across San Francisco Bay at night in a storm, he says, teaches even the toughest executive to delegate responsibility.

He ran a tight White House as President Ford's chief of staff and later, in the business world, was named one of the 10 toughest executives by Fortune magazine.

When new accounting standards for certain financial instruments would have made that goal a little tougher, executives allegedly stuck with looser applications of derivative accounting, loss reserves and complex counter-party transactions to meet the Street.

They saw him as a tough, conservative executive.

Scott sang at the funeral, overwhelming Seymour Stein, the legendarily tough record executive, which led to the album "All the Way".

But he has installed a tough, driven executive chairman in Nicola Cortese, who brings a sports finance background, having arrived in Hampshire from a sports business desk background at Credit Suisse and Banque Heritage.