Top Job

If he wins, he would assume the top job in government, and may well turn out to be precisely what Japan needs right now.

To hear him tell it, his hawkish views disqualified him from getting the top job at the European Central Bank later this year.

Is Akio ducking criticism of being a beneficiary of nepotism by accusing us and trying to justify his ascendancy to the top job?

His son was given different managerial posts, which groomed him for the top job better than many other "chaebol princes" .

Once I found a new top job, she was all happy again, reassured she could keep buying her luxury clothes.

But it is possible that in the top job he can at least learn to be a more generous and inclusive colleague.

But the data would also suggest that insiders do better, often much better, than outsiders when stepping up to the top job.

Inexperienced as she is, and certain to lose, she proves at least that a woman can contest the top job in the land.

GM insists Mr Whitacre has no long-term designs on the top job. But he obviously has firm views on its strategy.

The 70-year-old was strongly linked with the top job in Turin last month when the board decided to call time on Ciro Ferrara.

'The past 10 years have been a mess from a macro standpoint, ' says Mr. Immelt, who ran GE's health-care division before taking the top job.

Until getting his hands on the top job, Jones was executive vice president for commercial.

When he announced he was running for the top job after Labour's eviction from power in May, he was the second-favourite in a field of five.

A number of influential party insiders have been pushing for competition to be injected into the contest for the top job in 2012.

GM insists Mr Whitacre has no long-term designs on the top job.

But on bagging the top job he found no special levers of power in his new office, "only a desk" .

Prof Blount's trailblazing appointment is part of a growing trend for women to pin the top job in business school.

in the same competition for the top job, employers want almost boys rather than girls to be excellent.

In an historic reversal, adherents of their faith have been named to one top job after another.

Yet when he was offered the top job at Delta soon afterwards, the challenge of reviving the firm prompted second thoughts.

Mr. Putin reaffirmed that he will decide jointly with President Dmitry Medvedev who will run for the top job in the next elections.

And where else do the party rank-and-file (as well as some non-party people) get a chance to choose the candidate for the top job?

But Mr Armstrong must hope not to follow the example of a fellow American who reassumed the top job.

This could all add uncertainty in an otherwise clear race between two pro-Beijing cronies for the city's top job in an election next March.

Insiders say he may also be temperamentally more suited to the top job than Mr Winters.

Board members' doubts disappeared, and they picked him for the nonprofit's top job.

GETTING a top job in Europe requires skilful riding in a political steeplechase designed to trip up all but the surest-footed.

By last summer, says a close Obama aide, "General Jones was already under consideration for a top job in the Administration. "

The really remarkable thing, from Brazil's point of view, is that it has two technocrats competing for the top job.

Gupta was the first to get the top job at a multinational, highly-reputable firm.

If the Irish vote yes on 2 October, EU leaders are expected to decide who will get the top job at a summit at the end of October.

Human resource chiefs and recruiters typically look for people with varied experience when hiring for the top job.

Coming back to JWT, he has realized that he would never have got the top job had he stayed there.

Yahoo directors currently have no list of candidates for its top job, these people said.

Mrs Clinton would boost her chances of getting the presidency some day (a third of all vice-presidents have gone on to the top job).

Mr Brown spent a political lifetime in his quest for the top job; and then seemed almost to hate it.

Next month you will get a chance to try for a top job, but this month you can begin to get ready.

Having joint bosses can also help companies hang on to talented executives who might otherwise leave if passed over for the top job.

He will be allowed to seek the top job indefinitely, though his successors will be limited to two terms.

Now, the former foreign minister is overwhelmingly likely to assume the top job himself.

For years China's Communist Party has mulled over the idea of allowing a modicum of open competition for its top job.

I don't envy the guy who gets the top job. It's like when Michael Jordan left the Chicago Bulls.

But nor is Mike Duke, Wal-Mart's chief executive, who took the top job after heading its international operations.

Before moving into Wal-Mart's top job, Duke headed international operations and worked in a low gray shed next door.

Hell, he might even offer you a top job at his law firm.

I gather a lot of political infighting go on before he get the top job.

The changes help to pave the way for the expected succession to the top job of Mr Kim's youngest son, Kim Jung Un.

Moffat was contender for the top job at International Business Machines.

The announcements end speculation over which man should run for the top job.

Yesterday, Mr Nishimatsu, who will take over the top job in June, said JAL was "facing a crisis" .

Mr Jonathan could now be in the top job until elections scheduled for next year.

Still, the race for the top job is far from over.

But in the top job there simply isn't time to read every dot and comma before taking a decision.

Civil servants regularly take the top job at blue-chip French firms.

The strategy contributed to Russell's early departure from the top job.

It is true a board would be stupid to rule out anyone over 50 for the top job.

In his 37 years at Boeing, Mr Mulally was twice passed over for the top job.

Q. Is there anything that has surprised you about having the top job?

The battle for the International Monetary Fund's top job is becoming ugly.

Second, China is open to the idea that the top job could go to a European, but hardly committing itself.

For years Sir Howard Davies has glided from one top job to the next.

It comes with what many consider the international museum world's top job.

Now these nations want a fair shot at the top job.

And the message of fiscal restraint will be reinforced if Mr Palocci gets a top job in the presidential palace, as seems likely.

like ms royal , the last thing he will want on taking the top job is a big crisis over europe.

On Wednesday, Blatter will stand unopposed for FIFA 's top job.

By convention, Europe has always selected the IMF chief while the US gets the top job at the World Bank.

Mr. Ri, who was 80, held a high-ranking but not the top job in the Ruling Workers' Party.

Insiders last longer in the top job and they generate better returns for shareholders than outside hires, according to Booz.

She went from college to a top job.

When the took the top job at Post.

He joined the school in 1993, became acting dean in 2001, and was given the top job in 2002.

It is this emerging primacy of video games that has tempted him to a take a top job at EA for a second time in 10 years.

He holds a top job.

Cynthia Carroll, who joins the board in January and takes the top job in March, is an industry outsider, an American and a woman

Over the past ten years around 80% of boards choose insiders for the top job.

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