Burning ambition

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

A Challenge, an Ambition

t h g e p w U m w a w m Portuguese gastroenterology, either at national and international levels, and will stand as an element of prestige for all of us. This is a short term goal within our reach. Portuguese gastroenterologists will surely rise up for the challenge. As Director of the GE Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology I wish, first of all, to assume that I consider this challenge a gre...

Do women lack ambition?

For men, ambition is considered a necessary and desirable part of life. Most women, however, associate ambition with egotism, self-aggrandizement, or manipulation. Getting to the bottom of why this is so required study of what ambition consists of--for both sexes. In childhood, the research uncovered, girls are clear about their ambitions. Their goals are grand, and they make no apologies for t...

Payment by results: qualified ambition?

The commentaries on our original paper are interesting and informative. That of Malcomson illustrates nicely the costing and case-mix issues that are critical to the successful design of activity-based funding arrangements. The second commentary describes some more general issues and the scope for reformers to learn from international experience. The policy documents put out by the English Depa...

The ambition of the European Respiratory Journal.

C ounterculture icon Timothy Leary once said: ‘‘Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition’’ [1]. As incoming Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), I will bluntly state that the ambition of the Journal is not to seek to be equal with other respiratory publications but to be the best possible publication available to help, inform and open new horizons to junior and estab...