I believe that some business leaders are the world’s crowning jewels of innovative leadership, and they each cast a long shadow. Mixed in with their mortal blood is a spark of something revolutionary that propels them toward greatness – a drive and a passion that not only fuels, but actually enables their genius. They are all poster children for my Wave Thinking™ process.
Here’s what I call Pyramid of World and Industry Rockers. Following the World Rockers, the second tier of remarkableness are the Industry Rockers and theyinclude Microsoft’s Bill Gates, GE’s Jack Welch, Virgin Airlines’ Richard Branson, Wal-Mart’s Sam Walton, and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett. The fourth tier includes Proctor & Gamble’s A.G. Lafley, Cisco’s John Chambers, Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter and Square’s Jack Dorsey, and others like them.
I initially thought to only include those who are living, but I had to make two exceptions because of their astounding achievements. If you can reinvent four industries, or start from scratch and build the largest company in the world with revenue of $466 billion and 2.2 million employees, then I promise to include you in my future hierarchy too.
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