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Good things come to those who wait--an adage Canon's Tsuneji Uchida, 64, knows well after 41 years at the Japanese electronics company. This month Canon promoted Uchida to vice president, a move that hints he may succeed outgoing president Fujio Mitarai. Canon enjoyed a record 34% profit increase last year, and Uchida, who guided Canon's drive to become the world's leading digital-camera maker, gets most of the credit. Uchida's next challenge: to capture 20% of the global flat-screen-TV market...
...Senate confirmation, John Bolton, 57, became U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after President Bush installed him via a recess appointment last August. Blunt and outspoken, he chatted with TIME's Elaine Shannon and Romesh Ratnesar about being part of the bureaucracy, Iran's nuclear program and who should succeed Kofi Annan...
...dean. But “confidence” does not subsist in a grasp for power, and instead of using the no-confidence vote as a ruse, they should make plain their unorthodox case to exclude Summers from a role the president has always enjoyed. Should they succeed, the Faculty will have severely crippled the likelihood of finding a dean who can effectively liaise between themselves and Summers.More broadly, there has been a lack of conspicuous wrongdoing on Summers’ part in the intervening time between last March’s no-confidence vote and the impending...
...Google's P/E ratio (stock price divided by earnings per share, a measure of expected profits) is a whopping 76. Compared with the average of about 20 for S&P 500 tech stocks, Google, by that yardstick at least, is way overvalued. "People should not assume that Google will succeed at and dominate whatever it pursues," says Scott Kessler of Standard & Poor's Equity Research. "The company has been trying to diversify but hasn't done a great job at monetizing its new offerings...
...Succeed Ambition in human beings cannot be defined easily [Jan. 9]. It arises out of the complex mix of environment, available opportunities and an individual's will to succeed under existing circumstances. It is the unpredictable factor of opportunity that differentiates the outcome of our lives. The important lesson I got from Time's report on the secrets of ambition is that superachievers in life do not waste the opportunities they get but use them to excel. They take advantage of good luck and combine that with love for their work and the desire to get ahead of everyone else...