This is interesting and surprising. So far, Sister Mary Scullion of
Project H.O.M.E. is leading in the vote tally in our poll asking readers who is "the most effecive and admired CEO or top executive" in the Philadelphia region. (See poll down on the right). The poll has more than 300 votes and is still running. Tied at No. 2 so far is
Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and
Jack Bogle, founder and former CEO of Vanguard Group. Since the poll has a security lock that is supposed to prevent repeat voting, we can suppose several possible things: 1) Sister Mary is getting well-deserved recognition for a job that most other CEOs could never pull off, 2) A lot of people were deployed to vote for her from different computers, 3) Philadelphians truly believe the "brotherly love" motto when it comes to running a business or organization, 4) Our unscientific poll is flawed, or 5) Our poll is exactly right. We don't know. But certainly it is interesting to contrast our poll results with this item from last week: Four CEOs who never even got nominated to our list (but they'll be there in the next one) have been
ranked among the best CEOs nationwide by the consulting firm DeMarche Associates Inc. on the basis of company performance. They are Nicholas Debenedictis of
Aqua America (NYSE: WTR); William Carey of
Central European Dist. Corp. (Nasdaq: CEDC); James Maguire Jr. of
Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: PHLY); and Alfred West of
SEIC Investments (Nasdaq: SEIC). DeMarche used strict criteria that would have eliminated our three top placers because none runs a publicly traded corporation. Still, we find it interesting that the DeMarche winners were not even nominated in our poll. Our poll will be reset shortly to start again and hopefully will be a routine feature of this site. -
Thomas Ginsberg
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Why is this a surprise? It's not a surprise at all. Sister Mary has been showing great leadership and compassion for Philadelphia and the people who live and work here for more than two decades. She is honest and hard-working. She doesn't take large shares of the money made by her "company." She gives back and she leads by example. She has vision and she's not afraid to take the tough position -- even when it's not popular. That's a leader and someone who is greatly admired by thousands -- from the top CEOs of private and public companies, government leaders, as well as people who live on our city's streets without homes. I've told her she'd make a great mayor --the biggest CEO. And her business partner and co-founder Joan is not far behind -- if not right by her side.
Posted by Sharon | May 30, 2007 5:02 PM
Posted on May 30, 2007 17:02