Fortune has named The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders 2014 list.
In an era that feels starved for leadership, we’ve found men and women who will inspire you — some famous, others little known, all of them energizing their followers and making the world better.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is on the list at #33.
Fortune‘s Top 10:
1. Pope Francis
2. Angela Merkel
3. Alan Mulally
4. Warren Buffett
5. Bill Clinton
6. Aung San Suu Kyi
7. Gen. Joe Dunford
8. Bono
9. Dalai Lama
10. Jeff Bezos
33. Tim Cook: Following Steve Jobs has arguably been the toughest corporate leadership assignment in decades, yet Cook has carried it off with mostly quiet aplomb. In 2½ years he has kept the parade of winning new products marching (the Retina display, new operating systems, the iPhone 5), and he is bringing in Burberry’s savior, Angela Ahrendts, to run Apple’s retail stores. That’s thinking different.
Full article here.
How stupid #33 really? Number 1 or nothing!
The pope was elected #1 and I couldn’t disagree more.
At least Cook did much better than the President.
Bill Clinton #5? Please be serious.
Unless, of course, receiving blowjobs from 22-year-old interns entrusted to your care in a clear abuse of power, then lying about it directly to the American people, and getting impeached is a major part of Fortune’s criteria.
Oh, by the way: If you like your healthcare plan and you like your doctor, you can keep them. Period.
First of all, the president doesn’t have an intern, so she was never “entrusted to his care”. Secondly, I don’t notice JFK being maligned in recent years after people knew he had many trysts in the White House. Thirdly, at least he’s still married. Lots of the bible thumping Republicans apparently can’t stay married – Reagan, Gingrich, etc. And what about old man Bush’s affair? Guess those don’t count.
Gingrich was cheating on his wife WHILE his wife was in the hospital with cancer AND while he was hypocritically attacking Clinton.
(BTW, I think Hillary should have left him long ago..)
You do realize, she specifically said she came to Washington “with her kneepads on”.
Bozo is in the top 10? lol
His work with AIDS keeps him there.
I didn’t know he had it.
Is that some kind of joke?
I have no respect for Bono since years ago they moved U2’s business offices to Switzerland I think, to avoid paying some taxes, then he would proceed to tell Irish leaders that they needed to give more money to Africa.
Tim,
Sometimes justice happens! You really deserve this! Big congrats!
Tim Cook is not part of the Corporatocracy; he isn’t taking (greed) profits, nor is he interested in following the Street’s ideal of what constitutes good business practices in the 21st Century.
Apple is alone at the top of the world so they strike a balance between good stewardship and making Apple consumers happy.
Perhaps if Mr. Cook concentrated on product development instead abusing ’s clout on global warming and gay rights, he would rise next year on that list.
You’re still bitter aren’t you? You’re taken from pillar to post anymore for everything. What happened to you? You used to be insightful and provocative and now you’ve devolved into a whiner.
I submit that the once great innovation has devolved into a personal political tool by the current CEO. That requires no insight, it is self-evident.
You make it sound as though Apple’s #1 priority is Green and Gay!
Those are company policy issues and not manifest destiny.
Get a brain.
I submit that my Botty’s posts have devolved, as you point out Mr. G4, into a personal whining tool. Although I’m not so sure about the “used to be insightful and provocative”.
He wasn’t always this callous. In fact, he used to be just about right in a balanced and sober approach to Apple topics. Granted, he was never an Apple cheerleader, but he wasn’t a shill either.
He’ll come around once more, once he becomes a-political.
where are the “great new products in the pipeline”?
…besides adding professional wrasslin’ to tv?
We’ve never seen great new products in the pipeline until they were unveiled.
Nothing’s changed at Apple.
well, until “then” please enjoy your wrasslin’ courtesy of that icon of consumer electronics pioneering, Tim Cook. It will probably take you another of year of observation to crack your naiveté.
My naiveté? I’m in no hurry for great new products.
I don’t own a Mac Pro and never will. I still have a 4S. A first-gen iPad and TV.
I suspect you don’t buy the latest and greatest either, you just hope Apple truly is in decline so that you can be proven right.
Who’s naive?
maybe over a year for you to realize what has happened to .
No one in the thread said anything about “great new products in the pipeline”.
Therefore I’m betting bot is on: Hallucinogens.
For those not currently visiting Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds:
We’re not supposed to know what “great new products” are in the pipeline. This site is about Apple, not Scamscum ad nauseam.
the hallucination is “great new products in the pipeline.”
If you were a prophet and could actually KNOW what you’re talking about, I’d believe and follow and drink koolaid and stuff.
But today you’re high, off somewhere not of this Earth. When you return, we’ll still be friends.
so, where are the “great new products?”
your answer?
hello>?
Tim Cook did this to himself with his ‘great new products in the pipeline.’ Steve Jobs telegraphed nothing. Would he have allowed Phil Schiller’s ‘sneak peek’ at the all-new Mac Pro? My guess is that Tim persuaded Phil to do it, not the other way round. It produced some buzz but backfired by being delivered at the last second, going to back order status overnight, and not wowing Wall Street.
The sense is that Tim is saying, ‘We’re working on it. Get off my back!’ Which is weak. Steve was more effective in employing misdirection, the stage magician’s number one skill, buying time until, with a flourish, he pulled the rabbit from the hat.
Can someone please explain to me why Allan Mulally is number 3 on this list?
Who’s he?
He did rescue Ford and save it from bankruptcy, however, he personally saddled it with microsoft infotainment system software that has dragged Ford to dead last in quality. That alone kicks him from #3 to #300 (behind monkey boy)
You think rescuing a beleaguered Apple is hard, try following in the footsteps of a successful Steve Jobs.
A scary world Fortune lives in. Talk about out of touch what the hell does a bigoted pope of a dying religion have to do with reality or a very ex president for that matter. Bono yep the most self important non entity of a suedo do gooder on the planet and nice as he is who the hell takes the Dalai Lama seriously, after all most other leaders don’t even have the guts to visit him so as not to upset China. I really hope the rest of America isn’t this delusional or we better be scared, very scared. No wonder these establishment tossers tolerated Ballmer for so long unquestioningly.
Oh and I forgot to mention, Angels Merkel hwo is little more than Putin’s poodle due to the disastrous policy of allowing an empire building neo fascist control your energy supply. Yep a great example to the World Angie baby. Clearly Fortune need to get out of the office a bit more often if this is their view of the world.
The Catholic Church has over 1.25 billion members. That’s “billion,” with a “b.” Thriving, not dying.