He succeeds Anna Tibaijuka, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her dedicated service to the Organization and her commitment in leading UN-Habitat.
The first step in transforming IT and HR, and any other departments, from order-taking to service organizations is establishing a commitment to service and recognizing the intrinsic value your department brings to the business and to the bottom line.
And throwing out the historic Tory commitment to allowing individuals to buy out of the service - a central policy in the 2005 manifesto he helped write - is about as fundamental as it gets.
In terms of weekly attendance of around 75-100, and a growing commitment to mission and service work even as the numbers were off the glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, Pilgrim Faith is the prototypical U.S. house of worship.
As a fellow entrepreneur with a public-service orientation, I have been a longtime admirer of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to acting on his principles.
These "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray titles-paired with the native 4K titles for Sony's 4K video distribution service, which is planned to be launched in summer 2013 in the US-demonstrate Sony Pictures' holistic commitment to 4K and to the launch of this exciting new hardware into the market.