Chief Executive, Inc.Chief Executive, Inc. (CEI) is a chain…
Chief Executive, Inc.Chief Executive, Inc. (CEI) is a chain of business-clothing stores for professional women. Lana, the owner of the company, has designed the business so that she hardly ever has to be there. There are many department managers who hold a lot of responsibility. Although they are organized separately by department, each manager knows enough about the other departments to be able to fill in at any time. The department managers also delegate a lot of work further down to their employees as a way to empower them. The owner even delegates store-management responsibilities to a different department manager each month. Even though certain people are delegated certain tasks, everyone pitches in, so it is sometimes hard to tell who is really in charge. Two of Lana’s managers have mentioned that some customers have expressed frustration that CEI stores do not accept cryptocurrency as payment. Sensing an opportunity to differentiate the company from its competitors, Lana has brought together three managers from finance, marketing, and legal, as well as herself, to explore how the stores could accept Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency, and whether that could have negative consequences.The employees of CEI are so comfortable with each other that many go out and participate in activities together on the weekends, even when they are not working. However, the owner realizes that she does not want to participate in these events because she does not want to seem that she is favoring certain people over others.Refer to Chief Executive, Inc. It seems that CEI managers could best be described as _______.