Co-Founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs is the “ultimate CEO who matters,” according to a new survey by Barron’s magazine.
The annual ranking of top CEOs from around the world seeks to identify the corporate leaders who have top-notch reputations in the financial community and would be missed by investors if they unexpectedly left their jobs.
Barron’s estimates Jobs’ departure would result in a greater loss of stock-market value than the loss of any other CEO in the world. The magazine estimates Jobs might be worth 20 or so points to Apple shares, or roughly $16 billion in market capitalization.
Tee Hee!
20. Hell, I’m old and half deaf anyway. Ive heard em both, dont see the difference. In a blind test, bet you couldnt neither.
Who is the better manager The one who can leave and things still run, or the one who can not.
Too bad there isn’t some dependable (unbiased) way of rating our elected officials on a value-added basis.
#15 – You keep breakin ‘em, I’ll keep makin ‘em, you keep buyin ‘em…
Thanks!
20. Lot of good sound quality does when your iPod spends its life in the repair shop. Lets see Bubbas’ on his 4th iPod in a year! Must be a record. Hell, I gots 5 of em on my desk I’m shipping back to Crapple today.
#22
The first obviously, but human nature generally desires to be wanted/needed and in corporate settings this manifests itself as withholding information to oneself even to the detriment of the company. This results in a false belief that the person is “irreplaceable” if only because “only he/she knows how to XXXX”.
#22, 26 – George of the city & Nth of the 49th
George, that cliché works fine when it’s applied to the correct situation, but sadly, you are misapplying it. In the simplest possible terms, a manager is just that – a manager.
Steve J founded the company. He has, rightly at times and wrongly at others, set the company’s course. He calls the shots. That is not what a manager does; those are executive functions. You don’t have to be a Wharton MBA to understand the different roles of managers and executives. Whether you like him or not, he is not, and never has been, a manager. So your adage there is irrelevant to him.
His leadership has made a lot of people – including yrs trly – a lot of money. That proves his value beyond any doubt.
“…this manifests itself as withholding information to oneself even to the detriment of the company. This results in a false belief that the person is “irreplaceable” if only because “only he/she knows how to XXXX””
Nonsense. He doesn’t “withhold information” – the ideas which have led to this point in both the history of the PC industry and the history of Apple, came from this man’s mind. And as he and Woz basically created the entire industry, with the first consumer microcomputer, I’d like to see you come up with someone who has better ideas… and leave Bill G out of it, since he has made his fortune by appropriating the ideas of others. He never had an original thought in his life.
“false belief” Ya. Think of all those idiot CEOs who don’t realize that any schmuck off the street coulda come up with the same ideas. Wow, what a bunch of easily conned fools!
Really, Nth, your hypothesis there couldn’t have less to do with the reality. Applying the situation of midlevel executives who use that ploy you describe to make themselves appear to be irreplaceable has nothing to do with the situation of a CEO / founder who has been proven to have the ideas that have, for many years, resulted in the company’s successes.
Oh, yes…
#0 – Eideard
Tee-hee, indeed!
I expect to make to see Apple up at least 25-30% from it’s current ~$93 by the time the iPhone has been out a month… look for a 10%+ surge in the first post-intro week alone.
Yuk-yuk!