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Chapter
12
Leading in a
Dynamic
Environment
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Nightly Business Report (NBR), Wharton and NBR worked
to identify the 25 most influential business leaders of the past 25 years. Their goal was to find
business leaders who created new and profitable ideas; affected political, civic or social change
through achievement in the business/economic world; created new business opportunities or more
fully exploited existing ones; caused or influenced dramatic change in a company or industry;
and/or inspired and transformed others.
1. Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics 1. Lee Iacocca, former CEO of Chrysler
2. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com 2. Steven Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers
3. John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group 3. Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines
4. Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Group 4. Peter Lynch, former manager of Fidelity’s Magellan
Fund
5. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
5. Charles Schwab, founder of Charles Schwab Inc.
6. James Burke, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson
6. Frederick Smith, CEO of Federal Express
7. Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computers
7. George Soros, founder and chair of Open Society
8. Peter Drucker, educator and author
Institute
9. Bill Gates, chair of Microsoft
8. Ted Turner, founder of CNN
10. William George, former CEO of Medtronics
9. Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart
11. Louis Gerstner, former CEO of IBM
10. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric
12. Alan Greenspan, chair, U.S. Federal Reserve
11. Oprah Winfrey, chair of the Harpo group of
13. Andy Grove, former chair of Intel companies
12. Mohammed Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank.
Empowerment
Transformational leadership