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Brangelina monopolized the paparazzi. Vinnifer had the gossips geysering. The celebrity world gasped when Justeron (or Camberlake) split up. But if you want to know who's a real movie star, check out the latest Harris poll. It's weirder dish than you'll find in the Weekly World News...
...Ferrell (Talladega Nights) or Adam Sandler (Click) or Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum) in a certain kind of comedy - and Cruise can get their attention by testing the tensile strength of Oprah's couch - but somehow these guys don't fit the image of movie star. The Harris poll suggests the yen for a platonic ideal: the humane man (Washington, Hanks, Smith), or the tough hombre (Wayne, Eastwood, Gibson, Ford), or the matinee idol (Depp, Clooney) or the pretty woman (Roberts). These are not just people we want to watch, says the poll, but people we want...
Business leaders the world over love to rhapsodize about the virtues of globalization, and they often claim to be driving the process. But being a cheerleader is a lot less daunting than actually playing the game. According to a poll of more than 900 top executives worldwide, a surprising number of corporate chiefs are worried that their own companies don't have what it takes to compete in the international marketplace...
...poll, conducted by the management-consulting company Accenture, provides an intriguing snapshot of the key concerns of corporations at a time of turbulent economic transformation. Among the findings, which will be published this month during the World Economic Forum in Davos: most executives said that both their customers and their suppliers had become more global over the past five years. Likewise, just over half said their employees now come from a wider array of countries than ever before. But asked how well prepared they thought their organizations were to succeed as global enterprises, 22% said they were either "extremely poorly...
...Another surprise from the poll results: while more than one out of three executives listed the impact of the global economy on their businesses as the single toughest challenge they face, they were relatively unconcerned about geopolitical risks-despite increasing turmoil in the Middle East and the appearance of mounting threats such as a nuclear-armed North Korea. Those polled were more focused on knotty management problems over which they had some control. The executives cited the ability to maintain a common corporate culture as their greatest challenge, followed by understanding local customs and ways of doing business. "Suddenly, companies...