Dear Bhuban da,
I think the way Forbes ranks them is by the number of citations in the media, their sphere of influence or $$, and the number of people they affect by their actions.
Merkel actually had 80% approval in the begining, but now is down to 57% or something - yet she happens to be the most powerful political woman - as Germany is the largest economy in Europe.
Rice, by default, even though nominated does have the President's ear. The US President is the most powerful person in the world.
Gandhi, elected of course, is nevertheless probably controlling the UPA Govt. behind the scenes, and has tremendous influence on Indian polity.
Nyooi, (I think really deserves it). She has been with Pepsi for a long time, and in the last 5 years she and the present CEO made most decisions (mostly hers - like acquisition of Quaker Oats and also Pepsi being the first to go into the bottle water business) - Coke has just got in.
She will be managing a 100 billion $ company:
(From Forbes: Nooyi has a string of career successes that helped her land the corner office at the food and beverage giant. She was the lead negotiator on Pepsi's $13.8 billion purchase of Quaker Oats and worked on its acquisition of Tropicana, as well as the spin-offs of its restaurant and bottling businesses.
)
Mittal,he of course owns the business, but it was really impressive how he took over Arcelor.
I was keeping up with that story - unfortunately, in the end, it all boiled down to the fact that the Eurpoeans couldn't stand the fact that Arcelor the pride of Luxembourg (and the French) could be taken over by an Indian.
But, you will agree, Indians are making great inroads in areas they never had a shot before.
--Ram
On 9/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ram
I think these comparisons are not very apt. That is not your fault, though.
I put Chancellor Merkel and Sonia Gandhi together: they are both democratically elected leaders, now occupying powerful positions as politicians, the latter, however,
voluntarily relinquishing a part of herself. But not Condi Rice. Though Condi Rice is powerful, she is only a nominee of President Bush. She would have to consult White House at every toss and turn of world events. I concede that the office of the Secretary of State in the USA is unique but then you cannot deny her derived status.
Indra Nooyi is a CEO of Pepsi and just that, a senior employee of a particular organisation, subject to official discipline and waiting for her pension. I suppose she is answerable to a Vice-Chairman of the organisation.
And Mittal owns the organisation; at least in his sphere he is supreme.
Regards
Bhuban
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