Any manager must give direction to his staff on how he wants any goal handled. That doesn’t mean he’s supplanting the owner.
When his directions create new goals for the firm or undercut old goals, he definitely is violating his job description.
Right, but Trump needs to, and I hope does, understand that, unlike the job of a CEO in a firm, the job of the CEO in the federal government is constitutionally vastly more limited and constrained.