His father is the global manager of sales resource planning at Eli Lilly & Company, the pharmaceuticals company in Indianapolis.

Prasad Tadiparti, global general manager of human resources at MindTree Consulting, is working his way around what he calls "a logistical nightmare."

People Jay Dweck is joining Morgan Stanley as a managing director and global manager of the strategic analytics, modeling and systems group.

The challenge for the industry, according to several executives, is to resolve the tension between traditional record people and global managers.

He is the only friend as well as the global manager of Yoon Jae-ha.

"We're trying to build people who think globally and think like global managers," Mr. Tallman said.

Just this month, Mr. Maggiotto bowed out of a dinner with the firm's global managers to take his 8-year-old daughter on a cruise around Manhattan.

The company is managed with a matrix system in which geographical managers must interact with global product-line managers.

Mr. Bishop, now chief executive of Silicon Graphics Inc., has become the quintessential global manager.

"We've got an American icon brand," Mike Keyes, global general manager for Jack Daniel's, said Friday in a telephone interview.