executives
Top corporate officers
Executives are the people who run organizations—the senior managers with authority to make major decisions and direct operations.
The term covers CEOs, presidents, vice presidents, and others at the top of corporate hierarchies: She joined the company as an executive.
Executive often implies significant compensation and decision-making power, distinguishing these roles from middle management or rank-and-file employees.
Top corporate officer
- CFOTop corporate money officer
- COOTop operations executive
- boardroomCorporate decision venue
- directorOne who leads
president · officer · founder · chairman · vice-president · board · C-suite · headquarters
Planned approach to goals
- planningArranging for future events
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
operations · restructuring · optimization · efficiency · productivity · performance · benchmarking · compliance
Energy transfer rate
- controlAuthority to direct
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
- influencePower to affect others
- cloutInformal power or punch
mandate · delegation · autonomy · decision-making · veto · overrule · governance · oversight
Imaginative planner of futures
- strategicDeliberately planned for advantage
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- influentialHaving considerable effect
- charismaticCompellingly attractive to others
mentorship · guidance · empowerment · foresight · integrity · accountability · pioneering · diplomacy
CEO
Top corporate officer
director · president · officer · founder · chairman · vice-president · board · C-suite · headquarters · multinational
strategy
Planned approach to goals
- planningArranging for future events
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
administration · operations · restructuring · optimization · efficiency · productivity · performance · benchmarking · compliance · policies
power
Energy transfer rate
clout · mandate · delegation · autonomy · decision-making · veto · overrule · governance · oversight · jurisdiction
visionary
Imaginative planner of futures
- strategicDeliberately planned for advantage
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- influentialHaving considerable effect
charismatic · mentorship · guidance · empowerment · foresight · integrity · accountability · pioneering · diplomacy · negotiation
salary
Fixed periodic employment payment
- bonusReward beyond expectation
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
- perksAdditional job advantages
benefits · equity · incentives
- music industryalbum, albums, singles, record label, record labels
- authorityleaders, ruler, rulers, monarch, bosses
- authority figuresboss, bosses, manager, managers, superintendent
- hierarchyrank, ranked, authority, command, tiered
- workplace groupsteam, staff, crew, department, division
- affluent professionalsdoctors, lawyers, consultants, architects, engineers
executivesworkers
People doing jobs
employees · subordinates · interns · hourly workers · grunts
executiveslaborers
Workers doing physical tasks
followers · worker bees · cogs · drones
executiveslabor
Strenuous effort; also childbirth
working class · proletariat · blue-collar workers · manual laborers · hands
- executive jetPrivate aircraft for corporate travel
- account executiveClient relationship sales professional
- executive decisionChoice made by leadership
- executive branchGovernment's implementing arm
- executive producerSenior production decision-maker
- executive orderBinding directive from leadership