Apple’s Steve Jobs among candidates for 2010 MarketWatch CEO of the Year

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This year, MarketWatch is asking readers to select the chief executive officer who has done the best job for his shareholders, customers and employees in 2010.

Review the five nominees, chosen by MarketWatch’s senior editors, from the list below and make your selection. You can only vote once. The CEO who gets the most votes will receive the MarketWatch CEO of the Year Award for 2010.

Current standings:
• 41.20% – Alan Mulally (Ford)
• 35.37% – Steve Jobs (Apple)
• 13.43% – Vikram Pandit (Citi)
• 06.51% – Reed Hastings (Netflix)
• 03.48% – Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

The winner of the CEO of the Year award will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 8, along with MarketWatch’s choice for CEO of the Decade.

Vote here.

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ben” for the heads up.]

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  5. Greatness is determined not by a 1 or 2 year run!

    When you overcome disasters and plan right and execute on the long run, then and only then do you deserve a shot at being CEO of the year.

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  11. They should outsource Vikram Pandit’s job to India. No, wait a minute…he’s…oh never mind.

    The bigger question though why is he even on the list? To have received $20 billion of TARP money only goes to show what a f***ing incompetent fool he is. Why does he still have a job at Citi when 1 in 10 Americans don’t have a job?

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  12. Done!

    Current standings:

    Alan Mulally (Ford) 39.99% 
    Reed Hastings (Netflix) 6.02% 
    Vikram Pandit (Citi) 12.31% 
    Steve Jobs (Apple) 38.35% 
    Jeff Bezos (Amazon) 3.34%

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  13. @Burrell
    Give me a break, you have to have a run of good years managing BEFORE the financial and product successes are out there. This stuff doesn’t design its self for crying out loud.

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  24. You gotta respect Mr. Mulally’s great work at Ford, turning around a damaged brand around in just short two years in this economy is not easy task, though he received help from the government and friends.

    However, turning fortunes around is something Mr. Jobs knows better than most, as he has been doing it for a long time now as a constant miracle worker. But what he has accomplished more is beyond guiding his company to calmer waters. He has positioned his company in line to be best tech company on the planet, and second most valuable company in terms of market cap valuation. But even that’s not his greatest contribution.

    He has changed paradigm again with iPad. He’s changing mass behaviour, changing our world around us, making it less cluttered and tasteful. That takes more than courage, power, resource, will or vision. It takes pure inspiration that only mad geniuses can afford.

    Steve Jobs is more than a silly face on some Time magazine’s cover for person of the year. History will remember him far longer with kinder eyes. Matter of fact, even the CEO of the decade is not enough to appreciate the man most consider to be the most successful CEO in history.

    It’s not an emotional speak, because for then one might opt for the Chile miners or the ‘American’ unemployed workers (like that’s a global issue). It takes a rational and clear view to understand how the world is changing around us by a one man view. There are people who gives TED talks and daydreams about One Laptop per Child as if that would empower the future generation into betterment. With iPads and iPod touches, Steve Jobs has afforded that dream some realistic wings without such hoopla. And there are countless other stories like that if one care to open their eyes.

    Kudos Mr. Jobs. You don’t need no stinking cover spot, but you got my vote anyway.

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