Permit competition in our ranks for the best leadership versus the past practice of anointing leaders and choosing them based upon tenure.
Yet I find myself even now wanting to empathize with this woman who has so often put her foot in it, and to continue embracing her presence in our ranks for the good it's doing us even if that good has a liberal admixture of bad and ugly.
This gives us a unique eigenvector as our rank for the genes.
To reflect these changing times, we changed the way we compile our ranking of Best Places for Business and Careers, turning to analysts at Economy.com, the West Chester, Pa.-based economic and financial research firm.
Our ranking, prepared for us by research firm StarMine, assesses analysts in two areas: the outcomes of their 2006 stock recommendations (buy, hold, sell) and the accuracy of their earnings forecasts for the four quarters through March.
NMDC ranks 1,134 on this year's Global 2000 list based on our composite ranking for sales, profits, assets and market value.
Measured by our composite ranking for sales, profits, assets and market value, Hanesbrands ranks No. 2,052 in the world, though it comes in higher, at 1,324, in sales alone.
Where is our stack ranking for the tests?
"What I really hope is that our ranking is used for decision-making," he says.
