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...says Murthy, "the CEO is the emperor." At Infosys the CEO is more like a chief justice, presiding over arguments and casting a vote only when necessary. "Ultimately, I will decide," says Gopalakrishnan. "But I usually don't need to. We try to foster a much more collegial, consensus-based environment that allows the best information to come...
...question isn't what Ringo did post-Beatles. The question is what any of the Beatles did post-Beatles," says Geldof. (Geldof's assessment matches the broad consensus: none of them individually matched the Beatles' stratospheric standard.) One thing Ringo won't do is join Geldof in using his celebrity status to campaign for any causes. That, says Ringo firmly, was Lennon's province. Ringo believes in leading by example or, as he says of his vegetarianism, "I am the campaign...
...graduate students at Dartmouth are on a mission to make the opinions of college campuses more public through a new web polling site called open-vote.com. Discerning the student consensus on issues can be a challenge, the creators of the site say, and their project attempts to provide that service...
...Lebanon has been without a President since November 23, when Emile Lahoud stepped down. General Michel Suleiman, the commander of the Lebanese army, has been selected as a consensus candidate agreeable to the anti-Syrian March 14 parliamentary majority as well as the pro-Syrian opposition. But his election has become mired in squabbles over the process of amending the constitution to allow Suleiman to move directly into the presidential palace, forgoing the customary two-year cooling-off period for senior civil servants. The election has been rescheduled for December 17, although analysts suspect that the presidential vacuum could continue...
...There was definitely a consensus that it was absolutely ridiculous that I was applying to Harvard—community college kids don’t go to Harvard,” Woo said...