chief executive

(noun)

The president of the United States.

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Examples of chief executive in the following topics:

  • Chief Executive

    • Chief Executive is a term commonly used to refer to Presidential powers given by the Constitution.
    • Chief Executive is a term used for certain gubernatorial offices, expressing the nature of their job being analogous to a head of government.
    • As Chief Executive the president can: implement policy, supervise the executive branch of government, prepare an executive budget for submission to congress, and appoint and remove executive officials .
    • Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet.
    • President Barack Obama acts as the chief executive of the federal government of the United States.

  • Inherent Powers

    • In the United States, the President derives these powers from the loosely worded statements in the Constitution that "the executive Power shall be vested in a President" and that the President should "take care that the laws be faithfully executed"; defined through practice rather than through constitutional or statutory law.
    • Inherent powers come from the president's role as chief executive.
    • It says all executive power is vested in the president.
    • Supporters of the unitary executive theory argue that this means that the president's power, particularly the inherent power that come with being commander in chief, are open ended and cannot be checked by the other two branches.

  • Working with Management

    • They hold specific executive powers conferred onto them by the board of directors and or the shareholders.
    • The executive management typically consists of the heads of the firm's product and geographic units and of functional executives such as the chief financial officer, the chief operating officer, the chief strategy officer, and the chief executive officer .

  • Executive Compensation

    • Levels of executive pay have been controversial in recent times, with only tenuous links between executive pay and company performance.
    • Typically, the chief executive officer (CEO) directs the fortunes of the company.
    • It helps that the CEO has a good team that includes the chief operating officer (COO) who leads the operations of a company, and chief financial officer (CFO) who manages the finances.
    • Also important in different companies are the chief marketing officer (CMO) and the chief information officer (CIO), who manages the information systems.
    • Executive pay (also known as executive compensation) is financial compensation received by an officer of a firm.

  • The Executive Office of the President

    • The Executive Office of the President is comprised of a Chief of Staff, Counsel, Press Secretary, and other members assisting the President of the United States.
    • The White House Chief of Staff is an Assistant to the President, and is the highest-ranking employee of the White House Office inside the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
    • The Chief of Staff is assisted by one or more Deputy Chiefs of Staff.
    • New units within the EOP were created, some by statute, some by executive order of the president.
    • Distinguish the various key positions in the Executive Office and the roles and responsibilities of each

  • Chief Legislator

    • As chief legislator, the president may suggest, request, and insist that Congress enact laws he believes are needed.
    • As chief legislator, the president shapes policy.
    • The Constitution is reticent about the president's role in legislating, yet the relationship between Congress and the executive is the most important aspect of the U.S. system of government.
    • Assess the significance of the Line Item Veto for executive power

  • The Expansion of Presidential Powers

    • The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
    • Perhaps the most important of all presidential powers is command of the United States Armed Forces as commander-in-chief.
    • Historically, two doctrines concerning executive power have developed that enable the president to exercise executive power with a degree of autonomy.
    • George Washington first claimed executive privilege when Congress requested to see Chief Justice John Jay's notes from an unpopular treaty negotiation with Great Britain.
    • In other words, they did not expect a strong executive.

  • Commander-in-Chief

    • A commander-in-chief is the person exercising supreme command authority of a nation's military forces; in the US, this person is the president.
    • A commander-in-chief is the person exercising supreme command authority of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces.
    • As a practical term it refers to the military competencies that reside in a nation-state's executive, Head of State and/or Head of Government.
    • The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. chief of defense equivalent, may assist the President and Secretary of Defense in the exercise of their command functions, but the Chairman himself does not independently exercise command over any combatant forces.
    • President Abraham Lincoln, as commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John A.

  • The Executive Branch

    • The head of the Executive Branch is the President of the United States.
    • The executive branch consists of the president and those to whom the President's powers are delegated.
    • The President is both the head of state and government, as well as the military commander-in-chief and chief diplomat.
    • The vice president is the second-highest ranked executive official of the government.
    • The Cabinet of the United States is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States, who are generally the heads of the federal executive departments.

  • Chief Diplomat

    • Along with naming judges, presidents appoint ambassadors and executive officers.
    • Although not constitutionally provided, presidents also sometimes employ "executive agreements" in foreign relations.
    • These agreements frequently regard administrative policy choices germane to executive power; for example, the extent to which either country presents an armed presence in a given area, how each country will enforce copyright treaties, or how each country will process foreign mail.
    • However, the 20th century witnessed a vast expansion of the use of executive agreements, and critics have challenged the extent of that use as supplanting the treaty process and removing constitutionally prescribed checks and balances over the executive in foreign relations.