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Running a multinational airline, says Cathay Pacific CEO Tony Tyler, is a little like playing rugby. It might look like a group of "large and rather ugly men running around a muddy field," he says, but when they work together, it's a thing of beauty. "For the team to win, every player has to do their job well...
Cathay's team-building isn't just for the rank and file. At a recent event in Bangkok, top managers, including former CEO Philip Chen, were sent into local Thai grocery stores with 500 baht and the task of planning and cooking new economy- and business-class meals...
...encourage suppliers to detail their greenhouse-gas emissions. Both groups argue that climate risk should become an essential part of financial reporting, no different from a price-to-earnings ratio. "This is about being able to judge the viability and the value of your investment," says Jack Ehnes, CEO of the California State Teachers' Retirement System, which joined the SEC petition...
Many motivational books exhort readers to "sell yourself" to bosses and colleagues. This one counsels you to do so with self-awareness, finding a style that suits your strengths and weaknesses. The authors describe five models for would-be persuaders: driver (Intel ceo Andy Grove), commander (J.P. Morgan), promoter (Andrew Carnegie), chess player (John D. Rockefeller) and advocate (Sam Walton...
Larry Moon made the trip last January with his wife. ceo of the Sandstone Group, a family-owned holding company in Milwaukee with 150 employees, Moon, 53, says he was an unlikely prospect for a week of vegetarianism, quiet study and yoga. "A year ago, if you said I'd go a week without eating meat, I would have said you are crazy." But after six days with Swamiji, Moon is not only "about 90%" vegetarian; he's also a man transformed. He now rises early every morning to study Vedanta. "I've not missed a single day," he says...