Brailsford has been British Cycling performance director since 2003 and has overseen success for Britain at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo has overseen success in the Champions League, since replacing sacked Andre Villas-Boas, including the dramatic victory against Napoli followed by triumph over Benfica.
Wakely, a former England Under-19s captain who averages 25.61 in the four-day game, took charge of the white ball sides last year and oversaw success by winning the T20 trophy.
In 110 days, Ward will oversee the success or failure of the Salt Lake Games, which are critical to the American Olympic movement.
As an administrator he helped oversee the success of France 98, which began amid scepticism and ended with the Champs-Élysées packed with a million triumphant fans.
Mr. Daley helped oversee some successes, especially in foreign policy, such as the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and the American role in ousting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya.
Long-serving Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has overseen considerable success with both the men's and women's teams.
The new, as-yet-untitled film is being co-produced by Malek Akkad, son of the late Syrian American film-maker Moustapha Akkad, who oversaw the success of the first movie and several of its sequels.
Ms. Black, who helped oversee the early success of USA Today in the 1980s, has faced criticism because she attended Roman Catholic schools and sent her own children to boarding school.
That constellation of features first developed in western Europe in the 16th century through the mutually reinforcing, though analytically separate, processes of making war, raising taxes, and constructing a centralized officialdom to oversee and maximize success in both war and taxation.
