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Power Point: Escape the tiger
January 7, 2009: 6:17 PM ET"It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten."
-- Satyam chairman B. Ramalinga Raju in a letter to his board of directors, as reported by CNNMoney.com. The head of India's fourth-largest software-services provider resigned Wednesday after confessing to inflating profits for years and concocting a fictitious cash balance of more than $1 billion. The company derives more than half of its revenues from the U.S. and has 185 Fortune 500 companies as clients--or so management claims. "Satyam" means "truth" in Sanskrit. As the Indian economy matures, growing pains such as this corporate malfeasance are inevitable.
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Men think about power vertically -- and focus on rank and status and size. Women think about power horizontally -- it's largely about influence. I know I'm in trouble already. This is a stereotype, indeed. But in more than a decade of asking women leaders -- and the men they work with -- how they define power, I've discovered this to be an remarkably consistent truth. My favorite definition of MORE
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