This chapter of the book "The Functions of the Executive," by Chester I. Barnard (1938), explores the executive process. This process in the more complex organizations, and usually even in simple unit organizations, is made the subject of specialized responsibility of executives or leaders. Barnard presents the sectors of the total action of organization in which the sense of the whole is the dominating basis for decision. To do so, Barnard assumes that the reasons for existence, the ultimate purposes, are granted. The two considerations Barnard takes into account from the viewpoint of the whole are the effectiveness and the efficiency of action. The executive process is one of integration of the whole, of finding the effective balance between the local and the broad considerations, between the general and the specific requirements. The general executive process is not intellectual in its important aspect; it is aesthetic and moral.