“Just as New York kids in the 1950s used to argue about who was the best centerfielder in town, many investors today have strong opinions about the best CEOs in the world,” Andrew Bary writes for Barron’s Online. “We’re taking a cut at the CEO debate for the second straight year by identifying 30 top corporate leaders from around the world. Our list includes 20 from the U.S. and 10 from abroad. Call it a Barron’s hall of fame. Admission to Cooperstown is based on the subjective judgment of baseball writers, and entry to our shrine reflects the assessment of Barron’s editors and reporters.”
“The CEO list, however, isn’t arbitrary. We looked at profit growth during a CEO’s tenure and stock-price gains. We also assessed less tangible factors, like leadership strength and industry stature. We sought CEOs who’ve made a difference to their organizations and who would be missed by investors if they departed. To qualify, the CEOs needed to be on the job for three years. We talked to investors and relied on the knowledge of our staff,” Bary writes.
Among the CEOs listed is Steven P. Jobs, Apple Computer, CEO.
“Why: Dazzling techdom on two fronts. Steve Jobs is more than the CEO of two hugely influential companies: He’s an outright legend. No single person in Silicon Valley more fascinates the investing public. No tech CEO alive is more closely scrutinized,” Eric J. Savitz writes. “Since co-founding Apple in the mid-1970s, Jobs fundamentally changed the computer business with the Mac. Then he remade the music business with the iPod. His deals to sell video content through Apple’s iTunes music store for viewing on iPods have triggered many imitators. At Pixar, Jobs revolutionized animation. When Disney’s pending deal for Pixar closes, Jobs becomes Disney’s top shareholder. Apple shares have wobbled lately, but fans eagerly await Jobs’ next new thing. Apple mobile phones? Apple TVs? Don’t rule it out.”
Full article here.
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of course
An Apple TV would be stupid. TV sucks; there hasn’t been a good new show since Star Trek Deep Space Nine. imo.
Typical cultish fodder.
Tell us something we don’t know.
Writer: “What do you want me to write about?”
Editor: “We need three “praise Apple or Steve Jobs sotries a week”
Writer: “So I fly out to Cupertino for a interview?”
Editor: “Hell NO! What kind of budget do you think were running here? Just look through the millions of previous stories and clobber something together. Or plagerize someone elses copy it’s all the same, nobdy will call you on it”
Writer: “Ok, your signing the check”
Editor: “Damm right I do, talk to RJ in advertising and see if Apple will spend some money on ads this week, then really hype it up.”
True Story.
CEO top trumps, who wants to play, my steve jobs against your bill gates
Of course he is highly rated.
Let’s an American CEO that does not play the accounting trick of selling/spinning off parts of the company to show false profits (a la GM). How many of those are there in the tech industry? 20, maybe?
He deserves the kudos.
MacDude: need a reference for your “True Story.”
Stuff about my life you rather not know.
1: Am a vegan
2: Sleep on the floor
3: Smoke dope, briefly
4: Not alot of furniture in my house (soon to be demolished of course)
5: Had a altercation with a early Apple employee who went nutz and broke all the windows in my house.
6: My kids get picked on in school
7: I let my orchad die.
8: I really only bankrolled Pixar, John Lassater runs the whole show.
9: Longtime Apple/NeXT employees are cashing out their stocks and leaving.
10: I sold half my stocks in Apple yesterday.
11: MacDude used to work for me.
12: I’m getting too old, Windows won and I’m trying to transition Apple to be just another PC vendor before I die.
“People in the company had very mixed feelings about it, everyone had been terrorized by Steve Jobs at some point or another, and so there was a certain relief that the terrorist would be gone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Personal_life
Will someone tell me why in the HELL did Ballmer not make this list?!!!
Is there any justice left in the world?!!
Now excuse me while I whip this out!
MacDude: need a reference for your “True Story.”
It’s in my ass, you’ll just have to wait till my morning dump.
MacDude, it’s a list, not a feature story on Steve Jobs.
Apple introduces 1GB iPod nano
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/
Funny. No Steve Ballmer. I hear chairs being thrown….
Send your resume to Apple.
Include LSD as your life experience.
Get hired to be Steve’s personal assistant.
..and so there was a certain relief that the terrorist would be gone.
Steve Jobs and I are a lot alike, we like to terrorize people.
Boo!
to answer “‘Will someone tell me why in the HELL did Ballmer not make this list?!!!”
Answer me this, how well does Balmer fare on this specific list of criteria:
“We looked at (1) profit growth during a CEO’s tenure and (2) stock-price gains. We also assessed less tangible factors, like (3) leadership strength and (4) industry stature. We sought CEOs who’ve (5) made a difference to their organizations and who (6) would be missed by investors if they departed.”
I added the (1) – (6) in there for clarity.
I need to know something…
Are faggots gay?
Who really cares?
I mean really?
Aren’t we sort of desperate to be posting on this site anyway?
I know, we are waiting for girsl to come by to give us some post sex.
That’s what I’m truly waiting for.
I got so many girls after me it’s not even funny.
I’m not lying, really I am not.
I sit here with my computer, my Mac computer, because anytime I socialize it’s all about my sex life.
They start talking and then they want me.
they see I’m smart, handy, skilled and mature.
they want to jump my bones.
I fool around with one girl and the rest get evil, you can’t win. you can’t get any peace when your a good looking hunk of a man.
I had a girl, a employee of disney world, in the magic kingdom, try to rape me in the middle of the resturant.
I guess it was the cologne, Gucci something.
She wanted me, really bad. In a nutzy sort of way.
She would have killed any other girl I would have looked at in a second.
I never saw anything like it in my life.
Well of course there was this time in high school where I was kidnapped by a bunch of girls and stripped in behind the curtains in tha auditorium.
Lesson to you girls, guys have to be seduced or the rough stuff doesn’t give them a woody.
So now i hide in my house, trying to look as scruffy as I can so the girls will think I’m a bum.
I also wear the same tired clothes and don’t shave for weeks.
So I’m here posting because I have too much attention from the opposite sex.
I guess a lot of good looking women online have the same problem, either that or they are smart or nerdy.
It’s getting kind of tiring, living a life locked away from society because your too good looking.
This Mac buisness is getting old too. Same old drivel from the same old brainwashed product cultists.
Well I hope you enjoyed this one way conversation, I can talk about all sorts of wierd things and some of it might not even be true.
I don’t care what you think, never did. My job is to fill up these posts with useless comments.
Useless I am, you too as well, spew forth the propoganda why, your not living in Windows hell.
Screw Ballmer, screw Gates, screw Steve Jobs, but dont’ say in this place.
Morons to morons, dusk to dawn, peanuts are to gophers as Windows is to Linux the Penguin from Batman the Movie the Seond coming of Phill whatever his drunk ass name is.
Napster is dying, living on dregs of people who just wanna steal artists nose hairs.
Steve jobs is my friend, although I never met the guy. Somebody threw rocks at his window, one of his brainwashed misfits who blew a fuse.
I blew a fuse, the brainwashing is done, Apple should be fined for cultizing their products.
Apple needs to apologize. Fart. Amen, praise billy crystal.
MacDude Checklist
Passing off fiction as fact: check (could have been a good story if true)
Foul language & potty humor: check
Threatens other posters: check
McDude or whoever wrote the 11:56 pm post: Time to check your meds, call your headshrinker, get a hobby, find a self-help website.
MW: church. Ya, that’ll do to.
We need anti-virus for the Macdude-virus.
It’s not so great when he throws a camera at you!
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to answer your question “hi”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/faggotswithoniongrav_3899.shtml
are you gay?
My, that sounded mighty poetic. Do you repeat those lines everytime you jack the good stuff?
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P.S. We all know your as ugly as the next guy.