Word: chairman
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Today, in a neat twist of fate, Jobs is running Apple again, an interim chairman who seems to be in no hurry to find a replacement. Brought back in a kind of Hail Mary play by a company running out of time, Jobs staged a remarkable turnaround. He signed a peace pact with his nemesis in Redmond, killed off the Apple clones, launched an eye-catching ad campaign ("Think Different"), streamlined his product line, slashed inventory and turned a surprisingly large profit. Suddenly, Apple is cool again, thanks to a sexy, blue, Internet-friendly machine--the iMac--that is almost...
...wave, evolved into a diversified manufacturing and finance colossus with strong positions in media and information. This year's sales are expected to exceed $100 billion, and with market capitalization of $302 billion, the company is in a close race with Microsoft for the title of Most Valuable. GE chairman Jack Welch isn't the innovator that GE's founder Thomas A. Edison was, but this son of a railroad conductor and lifelong GE employee would certainly get my vote for CEO of the century...
...Iacocca was president of Ford, later chairman of Chrysler and last year founded EV Global Motors
Sarnoff retired as RCA chairman in 1970 and died a year later. RCA became a conglomerate, diversifying broadly--and unsuccessfully--before being taken over in 1986 by GE, the outfit that started RCA and was forced to divest...
...perhaps his proudest achievement was to emerge from the shadow of a legendary, relentlessly demanding father. In his first five years as chairman, the younger Watson observed the anniversary of his father's death in 1956 with a ritual. He quietly took stock of what IBM had accomplished since his father died, and then said to his wife, "That's another year I've made it in his absence...