What would look like standard operating procedure is hailed as another example of Mr. Baker's administrative "genius."

Admirers, trying to identify the reasons for his meteoric rise, have dubbed him a financial and an administrative genius.

Gordon Brown mistook a glut of cheap money and a global bull market for his own administrative genius.

Tadayoshi is today considered a military and administrative genius and the true architect of many of his elder brother's successes.

And, Browning had yet to prove that he possessed the administrative genius of the most experienced of all airborne commanders, General Ridgway.

In many ways, though he probably didn't realize it, my humorous friend was an administrative genius.

An obituary in the Church Times paid tribute to his scholarship, administrative genius and unsentimental piety.

He proved his administrative genius by his work in preparing the company to meet the flood of competition that followed the opening of the Suez Canal.

"It's not that I'm an administrative genius," he says.

He emerges as a cunning diplomat, a shrewd if ruthless leader and an administrative genius.