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...toned down the free-market rhetoric that made voters uneasy in last year's poll. And she has won the admiration of party members and rivals alike for her consensual management style and grasp of detail. "I'm convinced that she is really the right person for Germany," Henning Kagermann, ceo of SAP, the software giant, tells Time. "She's very pragmatic, she can listen, and she is not always talking about these grand visions but about small executable steps. We are very comfortable with her style." But are small steps enough to tackle Germany's underlying economic woes? Merkel...
...political scientist at Bonn University. "People like that." Cabinet meetings are more open and less hierarchical than they were in Schröder's day, though Merkel can be ruthless with long-winded colleagues. "When I met her alone it was like meeting a leading business figure," SAP's Kagermann tells Time. "She is very effective at managing discussion." Merkel also likes to keep her channels of communication open. She often abandons the desk in her vast Chancellery office and works instead from an oval conference table that puts her on a par with colleagues. She prefers visiting staff...
...Public company based in Walldorf, Germany CEO: Hasso Plattner and Henning Kagermann What it does: Designs and implements efficiency-building software solutions that slash costs and give managers control over global empires by consolidating a company's operations, from order taking to production and accounting Why it is hot: SAP's product range is broad and its focus on e-business helped the company report a 29% increase to $1.4 billion in the first quarter over the same period last year www.sap.com
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