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...Donna DeBerry, teamwork is integral to sports--a topic she'll have to know a lot about as Nike's newest exec--but equally important is cultivating self-worth. "On a playing field, in an office environment, it must also be about developing unique personal character," DeBerry, 51, says. It's a trait she had instilled in her early on as her father's Air Force career took her family to many postings--a global upbringing that DeBerry sees as her key qualification for becoming Nike's first vice president for diversity. A former Wyndham International executive, she will also...
...DEGREES ABC, THURSDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T.; PREMIERES SEPT. 21 Was Kevin Bacon unavailable? Beats me, but this serial about connected strangers still has dramatic muscle. Steven (Campbell Scott) is a great photographer in a slump ... who is hired by ad exec Whitney (Bridget Moynahan) ... who befriends recent widow Laura (Hope Davis) ... who hires as her nanny mystery girl Mae (Erika Christensen) ... who attracts the attention of cop Carlos (Jay Hernandez, above, with Christensen) ... who forms an alliance with Damian (Dorian Missick), a gambler struggling to go straight. It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice...
Movies aren't banished straight to video because they're bad. A reasonably smart marketing exec with a splicing machine and a decent song can make a huge profit out of bad. If some guy at home could cut together that YouTube trailer where The Shining is a touching father-son comedy, then the Fox marketing division can make Date Movie look good in a 30-sec. TV spot. That's why studio marketers are better at hoodwinking the customer than those two guys Huck and Jim picked up on the river. The biggest sin a director can commit...
...Seattle as an engineer and senior executive with Boeing. Up until yesterday, when he was named CEO of Ford Motor Co., replacing Bill Ford, he drove a Lexus - a plush ride, to be sure, but not a car you'd drive to Lions football games as a Motown exec. "That Lexus has been destroyed," Bill Ford joked in an interview with TIME. "We had it vaporized during yesterday's press conference." Mulally, for his part, acknowledges he's a newbie in town. "I asked Bill for his complete assurance that he'd stay as chairman," he told TIME...
...Carlos Ghosn The celebrated auto exec says benchmarking is the key to any good alliance