The Pope as CEOContrasting Pope and ImmeltIn two of my most recent blogs on www.strategyleader.com, I described how Jeff Immelt set unrealistic expectations and failed to meet them, while the POPE set low expectations and exceeded them. The result is that Immelt's credibility has been damaged and the Pope returns...
Will wonders never cease: it turns out that Pope Benedict XVI's press secretary, John Patrick Cardinal Foley, is a Philadelphia native and a 1966 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. I'm not sure what to make of this piece of news, except to say...
Thinking about taking that pilgrimage to the shrine at Lourdes? Wait no longer, the Pope has his own airplane to take you there. In truth, it is the Vatican that has introduced a charter service for Catholic pilgrims. Although the plane won't take pa Thinking about...
The Pope is a Catholic. This revelation will shock and amaze you - if, that is, you are one of those people stupid enough to have been surprised by last week's hint from the US Federal Reserve that it might raise interest rates some time. ...
Harold Pope, president of the 18,000-member National Bar Association, has exited what was left of the Detroit law firm of Segue, Fair, Adams & Pope L.L.C. to become a partner at Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, one of the largest firms in metro D Harold Pope,...
[mexico city] Taking the pope on tour is a costly trip. And the selling of Pope John Paul II's $2 million four-day visit to Mexico generated a great deal of controversy in the country, where more than 85% of the population identifies itself as Cathol [mexico...
FROM OUR BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT IT MAY not be the world's most powerful legislature, but the European Parliament has more pulling-power than many. Foreign leaders seem glad to address it. It is the Pope's turn next month. Mr Mikhail Gorbachev has just FROM OUR BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT IT MAY...
These Waste directors are buried in more than one corporate landfill Heralded for the temporary turnaround at Waste Management Inc., a trio of directors won't like what they're now hearing in stereo: As Waste Management shares tumbled 75% this yea These Waste directors...
Sony is looking to replace the traditional radio signal link for remotely operated cameras with a laser beam link. Sony tested the new system at the Pope's appearance in Denver Aug. 15. NBC successfully controlled a Sony BVP-90 camera, mounted ato Sony is...
By Jim Benson Unlike this year, closed-ended shows rule development Although a flurry of serialized dramas in the mold of Lost and 24 are premiering this season, it's the traditional, closed-ended formats that will likely rule...
BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello. I'm Betty Nguyen here at the CNN Center in Atlanta in today for Wolf Blitzer. Thanks for joining us. BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello. I'm Betty Nguyen here at the CNN Center in Atlanta in...
"We have customers telling us, 'My network is collapsing under the weight of the security gear I have to put on it'," says Scott Pope, security marketing manager for Cisco Systems. Now the vendor of networking solutions for the Internet s "We have customers...
By Jim Benson With The Office a bona fide hit, workplace sitcoms abound NBC's translation of Britain's The Office may rank only third among broadcast-network sitcoms this season, but its impact on the television business extends...
NEW YORK -- The flexibility and limits of executive power in our government have been the focus of intense debate in recent years, so it seems as good a time as any for the Roundabout Theatre Company to revive A Man for All Seasons (*** out of four). It opened...
Digest Packages for troops -- Contra Costa Blue Star Moms collecting items to send to troops. Permanent drop sites: Pleasant Hill: American Brokerage Company, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 1712 Linda Drive; Concord: A- 1 Self Storage, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Sunday, Kirker Pass Road; Supervisor...
TEHRAN AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday blamed a lack of attention to religion and God for the crisis in global financial markets. "Their economy is collapsing... the reason for their defeat is that they have abandoned faith in God and piety," Ahmadinejad said in a...
MIRFIELD Agricultural and Horticultural Society Showwas, and is, amajor event in the town's calendar. In the 1950s and 1960s it could expect to pull a crowd of 5,000-plus, and more on a dry day. Sadly, as one observer remarked in 1962, that year's show was the...
ROME AFP — A prominent Israel rabbi who made a landmark address to Catholic bishops added his voice to Jewish opposition to the beatification of Nazi-era pope Pius XII, in remarks published on Tuesday. "We oppose the beatification of Pius XII. We cannot forget his silence on the...
World in brief ROME Pope Benedict XVI kicked off a seven-day, non-stop Bible reading marathon on Italian television yesterday. The Pope read for several minutes from the start of the Book of Genesis live from his apartments in the Vatican while other speakers read in the...
ITALY: Pope Benedict XVI began a week-long Bible-reading marathon on Italian television - appropriately with "In the beginning". RAI state TV began its programme, The Bible Day and Night, with the Pope reciting the first chapter of the book of Genesis. The marathon will feature more than 1,200 people over...
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