Word: leaderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great unknown as he shuttles in his beltless blue jeans between Pixar and Apple, spending serious time at the former only when there's a movie coming out or a Disney exec to be placated. "We're doubly blessed," says a Pixar employee of the company's volatile leader. "We get him when it's important, but most of the time he leaves us alone." Jobs is the first to admit that his role at the studio is less than hands on. "I don't direct the movies," he grins, making clear that that's precisely what he does...
...those who have shaped contemporary history, I would cite General Charles de Gaulle. He was the incarnation of honor and courage. I had the privilege of knowing him and of working at his side. I learned from him that intimate, almost mystical, alliance between a nation and its leader. The relationship between De Gaulle and France was a personal and unique bond. During World War II, he was the symbol of the Resistance and later the spirit of reform. He restored political and economic stability. Never give up--have the courage to say no--embrace a collective ambition that leaves...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The next time someone asks whether character counts in a leader, remind them of D-day, June 6, 1944. In the months leading up to it, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower assembled an armada of 4,400 ships and landing craft, 11,000 airplanes and 155,000 troops with which to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Then, having done his best, Eisenhower imagined the worst. Along with a ringing message to his troops, he drafted a different one in case the invasion failed. In it he said, "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt...
DIED. KING HASSAN II, 70, leader of Morocco for 38 years with an uncanny survival instinct; of a heart attack; in Rabat. The ever diplomatic, pro-Western Hassan helped facilitate a number of key Middle East negotiations, including a visit to Jerusalem in 1977 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. A deft handler of vastly different factions in his country, among them Islamic militants, the charismatic ruler was said by Moroccans to have baraka, or blessedness. Hassan, who had been ill for several years, will be succeeded by his son Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed...
...tribal brothers with incantations given to him by a fearsome anaconda spirit that slithers up from Amazonian waters. At least that's the way Davi describes it. Like other native medicine men in the Amazon rain forest, Davi relies on hallucinogenic powders to reach the spirit world, but this leader of the Yanomami Indians also wields a more modern means of communication: a two-way radio. When an otherworldly voice squawks through the speaker, Davi wraps up his shaman's crown of toucan feathers, dons uncomfortable city clothes and walks to a clearing in the forest, where a four-seater...