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...million. Now on his 11th best-selling business book, Godin is a Web legend with a cult following and even a Seth Godin action figure. His talent as a writer is to impart his techie zeal without the baggage of geek jargon. "When I send a note to your CEO, who gets it?" he asks wryly, to make a point about eliminating barriers in communicating with customers...
...charges, from last year's 7.7% to beyond 10% by 2010. That would add some $900 million to those earnings based on last year's sales of $39 billion. Preoccupied with its overhaul in recent years, "we haven't been growing to our potential," admits Gerard Kleisterlee, 61, Philips' CEO since 2001. Reversing that, he says, means "making the company more agile...
...high-tech devices like memory sticks into high fashion. New items like that have helped triple sales at Philips' accessories unit in the past three years. "I've said many times, consumer electronics should be a lifestyle business; it should be a fashion business," says Rudy Provoost, the former CEO of Consumer Electronics who is set to run the lighting division starting in April. "There's too much electronics in consumer electronics and not enough consumer...
...copper, manganese, bauxite, precious metals, aluminum, coal, steel and energy. Its stock price has more than doubled in the past year, to nearly $33, and the company's market value is about $160 billion, 16 times what it was in 1997. Douglas B. Silver, an industry veteran and CEO of Colorado-based International Royalty Corp., calls Vale "the most effective giant mining company in the world," not just for its size but also for its skill at operating in difficult emerging markets. Along the way, Vale has built what could be a model for other formerly state-run enterprises hoping...
Roger Agnelli, a 48-year-old investment banker, became CEO in 2001. He inherited a company whose historic strength lay deep in the Amazon, in the massive iron-ore deposits of Carajas. Iron ore then accounted for 75% of Vale's revenues, and Agnelli's first move was to consolidate domestically, by selling off peripheral holdings in paper and forestry (Agnelli's family business) and using the proceeds to swallow eight rival firms. This gave the company new reserves and more sway over prices to the domestic steel industry, just before the commodities boom really kicked off in 2003 with...