businesscrat

The ideal CIO must be both "a technocrat and a businesscrat at the same time," says Jerre Stead, chief executive officer at Square D Co., an electronics manufacturer in Palatine, Ill.

Citizens are just as frustrated by corporate bureaucrats — or "businesscrats" — in their daily dealings with banks, department stores, and credit card companies.

In the 1930s, the government and the private sector had switched stereotypical roles, with the entrepreneurial impulse coming from the executive branch and resistance to change coming from Main Street

"Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.

Existing federal bureaucracies were not prepared to mobilize human resources and coordinate the industrial economy for war, so emergency agencies were thrown together for the occasion, mostly staffed

Put a business executive up for senator as a Democrat, and you've got a Businesscrat. Maybe also an endangered species.