Plus, less executive responsibility translates into more flexibility to work on a family-friendly schedule.
But few nations have a president so apparently powerful, yet so easily hamstrung by a legislature with no executive responsibility.
But North Somerset Councillor Elfan Ap Rees, who has executive responsibility for highways and transport, has said this is not true.
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Lionel Pincus, a founder of Warburg Pincus, lingered so long that when he finally handed over executive responsibility a whole generation of potential leaders had quit.
Kayaking across San Francisco Bay at night in a storm, he says, teaches even the toughest executive to delegate responsibility.
"It just seemed like a great project and staff absolutely love it, " said Sam Hudson, corporate responsibility executive at the firm.
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When was the last time a senior member of the team or executive staff took responsibility for a bad decision or a misstep?
Boards need to curb dangerous recreational activities because a public-company chief executive has "a responsibility that goes beyond your private life, " insists Bill McCracken, CEO of software company CA Inc.
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The executive argued that he delegated responsibility to another employee who failed to take care of the matter.
Melanie Sloan is executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The focus of the debt limit increase should be to put added responsibility on the executive branch and mechanisms for the executive branch to reduce spending.
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While Mr. Ellison "certainly sets strategy" and "is very deeply involved with products, " he also delegates responsibility to his executive team, especially when it comes to operations, said Mr. Singh, who hasn't worked with Mr. Hurd.
Ms. MELANIE SLOAN (Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington): Even those e-mails, the initial e-mails, were enough to raise concerns for me, and I believe should have raised concerns for anybody who read them.
Mr Tyrie praised RBS chief executive Stephen Hester for taking full responsibility for the failure.
Its penalty was widely expected after the bank's former chief executive Kenichi Watanabe quit, taking responsibility for the scandal.
Sinn Fein insists that policing and justice should be the responsibility of the devolved executive, preferably with a republican minister in charge.
The Senate's constitutional responsibility to confirm senior executive branch appointees is one of the few it hasn't compromised, or allowed the president to expropriate.
The comment may have been intended as just a colloquial way of describing the responsibility that the chief executive will have for making the new health system work.
In general, employers conduct these checks for job seekers applying for positions with financial responsibility, for senior executive positions, and for those positions with access to highly confidential employee information, according to the report.
Bear Stearns made it official Tuesday evening: James Cayne is resigning as chief executive following months of pressure to take responsibility for his role in steep mortgage-related losses.
In a second experiment, the researchers looked at a group of 88 leaders from other Harvard executive education programs with varying levels of responsibility for managing groups and subordinates.
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He does it because it is his responsibility as steward of the executive branch to retain the capacity of this administration, and every administration going forward, to function appropriately and independently from the congressional branch of government.
However, Congress, under the direction of both parties, has delegated too much of the constitutional responsibility for making law to the executive branch.
Beijing bronze medallist Tony Jeffries also criticised the organisation after signing pro forms with Dennis Hobson last week, although ABA chief executive Paul King said it "has no responsibility for the elite boxing programme".
The laissez-faire economic model of the United States has led to a corporate cronyism where the top companies are allowed a large amount of freedom to police themselves and their own governance standards for things like executive pay, performance, and general corporate responsibility.
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But there is a point beyond which it is his responsibility, as steward of the executive branch, to the American people and to future Presidents and future administrations, to retain the constitutionally enshrined separation of powers, to retain the capacity of the executive branch to deliberate and consult internally so that it can appropriately and independently respond to inquiries like this.
German corporate law shuns the idea of a chief executive, in favour of a Vorstand with collective responsibility.
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Will a top executive at the bank stand up, take full responsibility and admit his mistakes to the public?
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Roger Ellis told the committee as chief executive he had "felt a deep sense of responsibility" and was "embarrassed at the authority's failings", but not personally.
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