CoreyTess - Screenwriter, Designer, Fashionista » business http://coreytess.com Corey Tess - Social Media Maven Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:47:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Women ON TOP! http://coreytess.com/women-on-top/ http://coreytess.com/women-on-top/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:39:13 +0000 Corey Tess http://coreytess.com/?p=91 Some of the women who have made it to the top – You Go Girls!

1. Indra Nooyi

CEO, PepsiCo (PEP)
2005 rank: 11
Age: 50
Pepsi’s brand-new chief (as of Oct. 1) is a powerful force behind the consumer giant’s strong profit pipeline and $108 billion stock market valuation. Formerly CFO and president, the Indian-born strategist reached the top even though she never ran a line operation at Pepsi. Nooyi believes in constant reinvention: “The minute you’ve developed a new business model, it’s extinct, because somebody is going to copy it.”
2. Anne Mulcahy
Chairman and CEO, Xerox (XRX)
2005 rank: 2
Age: 53
An emphasis on color copiers, digital presses, and systems that can copy, fax, print, and scan has helped the turnaround magician (aided by No. 27 Ursula Burns) continue to drive steady growth at the $15.7 billion company. Thanks to the iGen printer, which cost more than $1 billion to develop, Xerox is also a market leader in color commercial printing. In 2005 the company launched 49 new products.
3. Meg Whitman
CEO and President , eBay (EBAY)
2005 rank: 1
Age: 50
Whitman’s task is to figure out how to put the shine back in one of the brightest stars of the Internet age (see story, page 158). Last year’s acquisitions have failed to bring in big revenue, and U.S. traffic growth has slowed. That has translated into a slumping stock, down about 40% in the past year; market cap is now $37 billion. The Internet phone provider Skype won’t bring in profits anytime soon—the service remains free until the end of the year. In July the company announced a $2 billion stock buyback, eBay’s first.
4. Pat Woertz
CEO and President, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
2005 rank: 6
Age: 53
Talk about a brief retirement. In March the 29-year Chevron veteran stepped down from running the $194 billion company’s downstream division. By May she had stepped into the corner office at the $37 billion agribusiness giant. Woertz’s energy expertise is expected to guide ADM’s push in renewable fuels (see story, page 166). Her timing was impeccable: Riding a commodities boom, ADM stock has had a good run.
5. Irene Rosenfeld
CEO, Kraft Foods (MO)
2005 rank: 27
Age: 52
Taking the top job at Kraft was a homecoming for Rosenfeld, who spent 22 years at the company, then took a detour to PepsiCo to head the Frito-Lay unit. Now back at Kraft, the world’s second-largest food company (2005 revenues: $34 billion), she is facing major challenges. Several years into its restructuring plan, Kraft’s sales are sluggish. Rosenfeld’s next move: preparing for the widely expected spinoff from parent company Altria.
6. Brenda Barnes
Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee (SLE)
2005 rank: 3
Age: 53
Barnes inherited a mish-mash of companies when she became CEO last year. So she began selling noncore businesses like Hanes apparel to focus on food. The divested units made up 40% of Sara Lee’s revenues, which were $19.3 billion when Barnes took over and are expected to shrink to about $11.6 billion this year. The stock is still lagging, as Barnes has been forced to lower the company’s long-term targets.
7. Andrea Jung
Chairman and CEO, Avon (AVP)
2005 rank: 5
Age: 48
Jung’s turnaround plan for the $8 billion beauty company is on track to reach $200 million in annual savings. Key markets like the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are struggling. Russia is doing well, though, and so is China, where Avon has shifted from department stores to direct sales.
8. Oprah Winfrey
Chairman, Harpo Inc.
2005 rank: 4
Age: 52
Move over, Howard Stern. Oprah took to the radio waves in September with the launch of Oprah & Friends, an XM Satellite Radio network. In January her $40 million Leadership Academy for Girls will open in South Africa.
9. Sallie Krawcheck
CFO, Head of Strategy, Citigroup (C)
2005 rank: 7
Age: 41
Krawcheck and CEO Chuck Prince have spearheaded major changes at the financial services giant (market cap: $247 billion), including the sale of the asset-management and life insurance and annuity businesses. But with rising interest rates and a weaker housing market, Citigroup has been missing its earnings targets.
10. Susan Arnold
Vice Chair, Beauty and Health, Procter & Gamble (PG)
2005 rank: 17
Age: 52
In April the P&G lifer added the personal health, oral care, and pharmaceutical businesses to her beauty portfolio. At $29 billion in sales, her divisions bring in 42% of P&G’s revenues. Down the line, she’s a contender for an even bigger job: CEO.
See them all here: http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/mostpowerfulwomen/1.html
]]> http://coreytess.com/women-on-top/feed/ 0 You came in with the breeze, on Sunday Morning… http://coreytess.com/you-came-in-with-the-breeze-on-sunday-morning/ http://coreytess.com/you-came-in-with-the-breeze-on-sunday-morning/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:13:32 +0000 Corey Tess http://coreytess.com/?p=255

Current mood:  determined
Category: Life

I am always talking…  and doing, but talking first…

I talk a lot about what I want to do, what i will do, what i am working on.. about ideas that spring up and opportunities that may be captured…

I am not frivolous in my choices… but i have realized that the ferver with which i put ideas and considerations out there makes some people wonder if I have clear focus and direction at all… rest assured that I do… there are simply many means to my end..

I used to think people understood when i gushed on inspiration and ideas in a heated moment that this is as natural to me as breathing.. i dont think about whether or not i should.. i just do… ideas… they are always floating around me – inside me- active when I am awake and even when I am sleeping.. ideas, concepts, inventions, businesses, and designs…  a constant parade of thought bubbles… i couldnt stop them if i had a  cork…

I suppose most people keep these thoughts on the DL unless they intend to be about them right away… or perhaps they simply only have a limited amount of ideas about what they can do or will do or might do in life…  i rarely see people who hold back making more progress than those who gush.. but i do notice that people who gush can become discouraged by those around them who dampen the concepts because they are not immediately possible, or even remotely probable…  i dont let it get to me.. most of the time.

I do what i do and am the way i am because i am in a constant state of inspiration and sometimes vision… it would be better sometimes to have rest from it, but i dont have that choice… i have a day job, so my other creative projects fumble and bounce along on the waves of my minds wake.  its very sad, but now i know why artists were always starving.. you simply cannot be a successful, well-paid person with a good but demanding career and also create for pleasure..  i create on a daily basis for profit… and that is okay too..  someday i hope to buy my castle in the south of France.. convert it into livable space.. “Nomalimo!” and fritter away my days creating stories…
One, two, three, four…

Sappy pathetic little me
That was the girl I used to be
You had me on my knees

Id trade you places any day
Id never thought you could be that way
But you looked like me on sunday

Oh you came in with the breeze
On sunday morning
You sure have changed since yesterday
Without any warning
I thought I knew you (whoa)
I thought I knew you (whoa)
I thought I knew you well… so well

Youre trying my shoes on for a change
They look so good but fit so strange
Out of fashion, so I cant complain

Oh you came in with the breeze
On sunday morning
You sure have changed since yesterday
Without any warning
I thought I knew you (whoa)
I thought I knew you (whoa)
I thought I knew you well… so well

I know who I am, but who are you?
Youre not looking like you used to
Youre on the other side of the mirror
So nothings looking quite as clear
Thank you for turning on the lights
Thank you, now youre the parasite
I didnt think you had it in you
And now youre looking like I used to!

You came in with the breeze
On sunday morning
You sure have changed since yesterday
Without any warning
And you want me badly
cause you cannot have me
I thought I knew you (whoa)
But Ive got a new view (whoa)
I thought I knew you so well… oh well

Ooh on sunday morning
Without a warning
Sunday morning
I thought I knew you
Sunday morning
Ooh you want me badly
Cannot have me
Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning

Currently reading:
The New Eighteenth-Century Style: Rediscovering a French D?cor
By Michele Lalande
Release date: 01 December, 2006
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