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Indeed, a senior cabinet minister suggested recently that the international community should write off Pakistan’s debts – an amount estimated at $40 billion.
At least over the past decade, senior New York Fed officials have consistently sided with the interests of very large banks.
Some senior Fed officials become angry when pressed about this reality.
China’s Next AgendaCAMBRIDGE – I recently returned from Beijing, where I had spent a week talking with Chinese officials and attending the China Development Forum (CDF), the major annual gathering of Chinese and senior foreign officials and top business executives.
Recently, in an apparent slip, a senior civilian official – Sharif’s national security adviser, Sartaj Aziz – said that Pakistan should do nothing to stop militants who do not intend to harm Pakistan.
What, if anything, do these high-profile dismissals tell us about women in senior workplace positions?
The Times announced Abramson’s departure in a front-page story filled with barbs and swipes, the kind of piece that even the most ineffectual senior male editor never sees in print upon his dismissal from a job.
So let us speak frankly, facing a taboo, about what it means to be a senior woman leading effectively: it means that one will occasionally contradict a man, however politely; overrule a man, however courteously; disregard a man’s strategic advice, no matter how gently the decision is put; and tell a junior man, however tactfully, that he is not performing well enough.
The problem with senior women’s management style lies with the second category of men at work.
This is the untold secret of women’s struggle in the workplace: if you ask any senior woman off the record, she is likely to agree that most of her male colleagues have no problem with women’s authority, but that some simply cannot abide it, no matter how it is wielded.
Interestingly, in fields where women hold many senior positions, like book publishing, it is rare to see analyses of women’s management styles.
The New Delhi-based PHD Chamber of Commerce has organized 31 business-government dialogues throughout northern India to reach state-level government officials, senior business people and academics.
President Barack Obama is supposed to appoint senior officials with the “advice and consent” of the US Senate.
The financial crisis should have mandated a running stress test to keep senior management up to date daily.
Geithner and Larry Summers, Obama’s chief economic advisor, share Wall Street’s culture as protégés of Robert Rubin, the former treasury secretary who went on to serve as a director and senior counselor at Citigroup.
After all, senior bankers had been claiming that these assets were “mispriced,” and that pricing them at market levels would penalize the banks unnecessarily.
Finally, shareholders and senior executives should tie performance goals to incentives.
So it behaved exactly according to its fear, launching a series of show trials targeting senior military officials and other perceived opponents.
As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined.
Several senior government officials have been investigated and charged; some are already on trial, while others have lost their jobs and have been placed under house arrest.
On the fringes of the International Monetary Fund’s just-completed spring meetings in Washington, DC, I had the opportunity to talk with senior officials and their advisers from various countries, including from Europe.
The judge's ruling spurred rumors that he went easy on her because her husband was related to senior provincial officials.
Of those living, most hold senior posts in the Ugandan army; a few are in politics.
When a senior defense expert recently testified before a US Congressional commission on China's military capability, he detailed the extraordinarily robust weapons program the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been pursuing.
The inability to answer this question clearly exorcised and angered both the senior expert and the committee.
The state also should open up and recruit senior managers from outside the civil service.
Again, this seems unfair, as Western employees tend to be hired for senior managerial or technical posts, which are more difficult and more expensive to fill.
Juncker, after all, has many senior politicians to accommodate, and their approval by the European Parliament is no minor matter.
Senior managers were so disengaged that they allowed their employees to act like vulgar, overpaid children.
Senior bank managers and regulators have a common interest in developing a more effective system – one that punishes the guilty and creates the right incentives for the future.
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