Apple's Steve Jobs Named "CEO Of The Decade" By Fortune Magazine

by Yuliya Talmazan | November 5, 2009 at 04:24 pm

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Steve Jobs, the long-time CEO of Apple, has been named the "CEO of the Decade" by Fortune Magazine. The magazine says Steve Jobs was instrumental in turning Apple into the most valuable company in Silicon Valley. Fortune goes further and says the 2000s are "the decade of Steve." They say Jobs "revived Apple and remade entire industries, defying the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, and his own serious health problems." Fortune credits Jobs with redefining not only his own computing industry, but also changing music, movie and mobile telephone industries.

"It's often noted that he's a showman, a born salesman, a magician who creates a famed reality-distortion field, a tyrannical perfectionist," the report said. "It's totally accurate, of course, and the descriptions contribute to his legend."

Interestingly, the runners-up for the CEO of the Decade were Bills Gates, Warren Buffet, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Sergei Brin and even Bernie Madoff.

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