In the board rooms of the big companies, executives consider new products.

In the past the same executives considered employees the biggest threat.

If a shock to the market sent the stock tumbling, the executive might have considered the options worthless for the near future.

He insists he will be a regular member until the party's executives consider a future role for him.

This is something that executives don't consider when they make their integration timetables.

One executive actually considers himself a beneficiary of the recession.

Probably not, but they seem to be chipping away at a practice that some executives always considered a kind of inalienable right.

Despite such opposition, the former chief executive who is a member considers change inevitable.

In April 2013, investors began to speculate that the 64-year old executive may be considering retirement.

At the other extreme are six or eight executives considered the management hard-liners.