Executive Privilege

Executive PrivilegeExecutive Time, the theory goes, is too valuable to be spent sharpening pencils. placing phone calls or whatever. As Webster's New International Dictionary makes clear, an executive is charged, above all else, with the conduct of affairs. It makes sense, therefore, that he be able to dispose of the more mundane aspects of his job as quickly and as easily as possible--the better to deal with all those important affairs. It was to that end. obviously, that secretaries were inven...