these are the top-tier professionals
whose hard work brought their companies
to the forefront of their industries
Court would not take the taxpayer
bailout or file for bankruptcy welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
influential business executives for this
list we’ve chosen leaders of Industry
who although they were not founders or
cofounders of their respective
enterprises have either helped their
companies earn greater prominence or
have substantially increased their
profitability during their
administration we’ve also excluded those
magnates we categorized as our top ten
most influential tech business moguls as
well as our top ten most influential non
tech business moguls we added on didn’t
we
that’s exactly right but we were
Mavericks even van so if you’re looking
for inspirational founders and
innovators like Bill Gates or Walt
Disney be sure to check out those lists
number 10 Alan Mulally former president
and CEO of Ford Motor Company under this
executives leadership Ford became the
only American car company to dodge the
government bailout at the onset of the
Great Recession
despite this downturn four does not
anticipate a near-term liquidity crisis
in fact we expect our automobile
business to be profitable in 2011 prior
to his tenure as CEO with the auto
manufacturing giant Malawi looked to the
skies as an engineer for Boeing where he
contributed designs to numerous
commercial flight models and ascended to
executive status after joining Ford in
2006 Mullaly spearheaded the
resurrection of the brand’s popular
tourist model the Taurus is an American
icon it changed the world in the family
sedan category and there are nearly
seven million tourists that we have
produced probably three and a half
million are still on the road while he’s
since left his role with the automaker
Mullaly remains influential as a member
of the Google board of directors so
I want to know what you think about the
the Google car and is it real and what
what’s the impact of that you don’t know
about the Google car it’s one of the
dreams of the founders to have a
autonomous car I really like driving
number nine Jamie Dimon chairman
president and CEO of JPMorgan Chase it
is an honor a privilege and a very deep
responsibility to be a leader of a small
group or a bigger group renowned as an
influential CEO by numerous media
outlets this money-wise Harvard Business
School graduate has a resume with its
own multi-million dollar value starting
his career at American Express Diamond
has since added financial institutions
like Bank One New York’s Federal Reserve
and Citigroup to his CV I looked at
multiple jobs and multiple industries
including a lot of these Internet
companies and what I realized was what I
know when I’m good at what I practiced
was financial services and I like big
companies and complex situations and
lots of people after becoming president
and CEO of JPMorgan Chase in the
mid-2000s following the company’s merger
with Bank One diamond saw to the firm’s
acquisitions of countless assets which
eventually resulted in a growth spurt
that made it the largest bank in the
United States I love what I do so anyway
I wake up at a I’m just so damn proud of
this company when I travel around the
country and shop around the world and
you see the good that we’ve done for
communities and people and that doesn’t
me have made mistakes that’s what
motivates me number eight miss Lavvy CEO
of pea business group usual so here we
are again to not recognize this man’s
name would be ironic known as Monsieur
big in the world of advertising this
French tycoon has earned his spotlight
as CEO of Publicis Groupe
one of the world’s big four advertising
agencies I think innovation and
creativity can come from anywhere
serving at the helm since 1987 Levy
solidified his international presence by
leading the company to procure countless
competitors domestic and a
we are still leading the pack we are the
most innovative we are the one who have
invented a lot of new tools a lot of new
approaches we have been the one who have
really invested heavily in digital
however despite holding the highest
position in the company Navy continues
to involve himself in more day-to-day
operations participating in the creative
process of colourful ads like this
number seven
Lee Iacocca former chairman president
and CEO of Chrysler Corporation a lot of
people think America can’t cut the
mustard anymore that quality counts for
nothing and hard work for even less and
commitment that one out with a hollow
hope he’s the man to thank for the Ford
Mustang and Pinto which depending on how
you look at it is both a blessing and a
curse with history at two of the big
three American car manufacturers this
entrepreneur engineer and innovator has
done it all from sales to design to
corporate quality hard work commitment
the stuff America was made of without
them there is no future after dedicating
over 30 years to Ford Iacocca went on to
lead the struggling Chrysler Group out
of trouble in the late 70s early 80s by
requesting an unprecedented government
bailout mike shuster coming to his real
simple I’m running out of money and I’m
gonna have to shut down and by
introducing highly successful models
like the kei car line and the minivan
introducing our new front-wheel drive
Dodge Caravan great mileage and shorter
than a full-size station wagon get
there’s available seating for two five
even seven adults number six Lou
Gerstner former chairman and CEO of IBM
I think what my leadership style is to
get people to fear staying in place to
fear not changing when IBM suffered its
first major financial setback in the
early 90s its board dethroned its CEO
and initiated a desperate search for a
fitting successor the only candidate
interested was one Louis Vincent
Gerstner who was previously an exec at
American Express and CEO of RJR nabisco
I don’t think you can have a great need
to be loved and be an effective change
agent despite his outsider status in the
tech industry Gerstner x’ managerial
efforts not only kept IBM afloat they
resulted in what’s commonly labeled one
of the most impressive reversals of
fortune ever
with Kirchner’s focus on the internet
and IT services credited with saving the
tech giant from bankruptcy
IBM arguably was the most successful
private enterprise in the world for two
or three decades and so the culture had
to be productive at that time but it had
gotten off track I mean it had just lost
its way and now I had to go in and I had
I had to change that culture number five
Tim Cook CEO of Apple Inc we’re very
simple people at Apple we focus on
making the world’s best products and
enriching people’s lives when Apple’s
co-founder and then CEO Steve Jobs
required a string of medical leaves
throughout the 2000s his close friend
and personal choice to take over Tim
Cook was the Willing appointee that kept
the tech multinationals operations
running I’m a workaholic which which
helps after Jobs passing in 2011 Cooke
continued to lead Apple by updating its
ever so popular line of iPod iPhone and
Macintosh products it is the best Mac
we’ve ever made
the company also expanded its
humanitarian efforts under cooks
leadership having immensely increased
its donations and ties to charities
civil rights groups and global
sustainability organizations one of the
key principles in the UN Charter is to
reaffirm faith in fundamental human
rights in the dignity and worth of the
human person in the Equal Rights of men
and women and Nations large and small
these are very simple yet very powerful
words and they are at the core of my
beliefs and values
number four Lakshmi Mittal chairman and
CEO of ArcelorMittal we have succeeded
in transforming ourselves into
profitable and sustainable industry with
more than 10 in 10,000 employees the
company spans the globe as partial owner
chairman and CEO of the world’s largest
producer of steel Mittal has been
appropriately dubbed the king of steel
beyond the borders of his metallic
Empire Mittal retains high executive
status in other companies notably as a
member of the boards of directors of
both Goldman Sachs and Airbus group his
generosity as a philanthropist have
garnered him further prominence as he
helped form a number of nonprofit
organizations and donated millions to
underfunded hospitals being responsible
is vital to a company’s long-term
success I have always believed this
because being responsible not only has
benefits for society it has clear
benefits for the business number three
Roberto goiz Wetty former chairman and
CEO of the coca-cola company the true
heritage of the coca-cola system is his
courage this native of Cuba made
coca-cola the brand it is today working
his way up the corporate ladder boys
sweat began his coke career as a bottler
eventually taking a chemical engineering
job and finally earning the top job in
1980 although he was also the man behind
the New Coke fiasco and the company’s
acquisition and eventual sale of
Columbia Pictures
boy sweater also brought us diet coke
just for the taste of
ultimately becoming one of the few
people with Coca Cola’s secret formula
boys sweater was responsible for
expansion efforts that saw Coke become
an undeniably global brand we were a
company which was an American company
headquartered in Atlanta that had
accessible international business today
we are an international company that
happens to be headquartered in Atlanta
Georgia
number two Alfred P Sloan former
chairman president and CEO of General
Motors it was a tremendous reward for a
tremendous accomplishment that’s what
made America possible placed at the helm
of GM at the dawn of the roaring 20s
Sloan captained the company through good
times and bad surviving the Great
Depression and World War two he was also
a well-known philanthropist with the
Alfred P sloan Foundation becoming an
important charitable organization in the
US I feel very strongly that American
enterprise was the call for enterprise
and individual enterprise and kind of
real responsibility to support our
institutions of higher life
credited with influencing companies
beyond the auto industry Sloan was
responsible for breakthrough business
practices that have since become
standard for many competitors and
sectors including annual style changes
and planned obsolescence with Sloan’s
leadership and ingenious methods in
place GM stayed strong long after his
departure in 1956 I think the
opportunity it offers the most and
through life and in a competence after
life is to obtain the franchise if a
good automobile before we get to our
most influential business executive here
are a few honorable mentions Michael
Eisner and welcome to the Disney Sunday
movie
I am very invested in not just Disney
today but Disney long-term well beyond
my tenure as CEO very powerful
megatrends are forcing us to change the
way technology is consumed delivered and
paid for to us sustainable development
is a race with no finish line
it requires leadership that sets high
expectations and clear direction an
innovation that constantly pushes the
frontier of what is possible
number one Jack Welch former chairman
and CEO of General Electric Neutron Jack
began his career with the general in
1960 as a chemical engineer there are
all kinds of opportunities either as
entrepreneurs or in companies but it’s
going to take a passion and a drive that
seconds and nothing they have seen
before just over 20 years later he
became the company’s youngest CEO and
began utilizing tactics which although
considered brutal were ultimately
successful and respected by the
competition some of these practices
included firing the bottom 10% of his
managers each year and getting out of
unsuccessful product segments now on the
27 810 you don’t win you don’t buy next
year you won’t be big they’re getting
appraised here find a job else missed
time for you and the early you do it if
you can do it soon before they’re 35
well you know they’re not gonna fit
that’s the kind of game of all despite
these unorthodox practices GES value
rose by 4,000 percent during Welch’s
time at the company and today retains
its potency as an international
conglomerate by continuing to promote
the business methods he initiated
winning is great winning is so good the
companies when people win do you agree
with our list which business exec do you
think is the most influential for more
powerful top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com you
know I got to tell you what is your last
turn at bat
it sure is nice to hit home
whose hard work brought their companies
to the forefront of their industries
Court would not take the taxpayer
bailout or file for bankruptcy welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
influential business executives for this
list we’ve chosen leaders of Industry
who although they were not founders or
cofounders of their respective
enterprises have either helped their
companies earn greater prominence or
have substantially increased their
profitability during their
administration we’ve also excluded those
magnates we categorized as our top ten
most influential tech business moguls as
well as our top ten most influential non
tech business moguls we added on didn’t
we
that’s exactly right but we were
Mavericks even van so if you’re looking
for inspirational founders and
innovators like Bill Gates or Walt
Disney be sure to check out those lists
number 10 Alan Mulally former president
and CEO of Ford Motor Company under this
executives leadership Ford became the
only American car company to dodge the
government bailout at the onset of the
Great Recession
despite this downturn four does not
anticipate a near-term liquidity crisis
in fact we expect our automobile
business to be profitable in 2011 prior
to his tenure as CEO with the auto
manufacturing giant Malawi looked to the
skies as an engineer for Boeing where he
contributed designs to numerous
commercial flight models and ascended to
executive status after joining Ford in
2006 Mullaly spearheaded the
resurrection of the brand’s popular
tourist model the Taurus is an American
icon it changed the world in the family
sedan category and there are nearly
seven million tourists that we have
produced probably three and a half
million are still on the road while he’s
since left his role with the automaker
Mullaly remains influential as a member
of the Google board of directors so
I want to know what you think about the
the Google car and is it real and what
what’s the impact of that you don’t know
about the Google car it’s one of the
dreams of the founders to have a
autonomous car I really like driving
number nine Jamie Dimon chairman
president and CEO of JPMorgan Chase it
is an honor a privilege and a very deep
responsibility to be a leader of a small
group or a bigger group renowned as an
influential CEO by numerous media
outlets this money-wise Harvard Business
School graduate has a resume with its
own multi-million dollar value starting
his career at American Express Diamond
has since added financial institutions
like Bank One New York’s Federal Reserve
and Citigroup to his CV I looked at
multiple jobs and multiple industries
including a lot of these Internet
companies and what I realized was what I
know when I’m good at what I practiced
was financial services and I like big
companies and complex situations and
lots of people after becoming president
and CEO of JPMorgan Chase in the
mid-2000s following the company’s merger
with Bank One diamond saw to the firm’s
acquisitions of countless assets which
eventually resulted in a growth spurt
that made it the largest bank in the
United States I love what I do so anyway
I wake up at a I’m just so damn proud of
this company when I travel around the
country and shop around the world and
you see the good that we’ve done for
communities and people and that doesn’t
me have made mistakes that’s what
motivates me number eight miss Lavvy CEO
of pea business group usual so here we
are again to not recognize this man’s
name would be ironic known as Monsieur
big in the world of advertising this
French tycoon has earned his spotlight
as CEO of Publicis Groupe
one of the world’s big four advertising
agencies I think innovation and
creativity can come from anywhere
serving at the helm since 1987 Levy
solidified his international presence by
leading the company to procure countless
competitors domestic and a
we are still leading the pack we are the
most innovative we are the one who have
invented a lot of new tools a lot of new
approaches we have been the one who have
really invested heavily in digital
however despite holding the highest
position in the company Navy continues
to involve himself in more day-to-day
operations participating in the creative
process of colourful ads like this
number seven
Lee Iacocca former chairman president
and CEO of Chrysler Corporation a lot of
people think America can’t cut the
mustard anymore that quality counts for
nothing and hard work for even less and
commitment that one out with a hollow
hope he’s the man to thank for the Ford
Mustang and Pinto which depending on how
you look at it is both a blessing and a
curse with history at two of the big
three American car manufacturers this
entrepreneur engineer and innovator has
done it all from sales to design to
corporate quality hard work commitment
the stuff America was made of without
them there is no future after dedicating
over 30 years to Ford Iacocca went on to
lead the struggling Chrysler Group out
of trouble in the late 70s early 80s by
requesting an unprecedented government
bailout mike shuster coming to his real
simple I’m running out of money and I’m
gonna have to shut down and by
introducing highly successful models
like the kei car line and the minivan
introducing our new front-wheel drive
Dodge Caravan great mileage and shorter
than a full-size station wagon get
there’s available seating for two five
even seven adults number six Lou
Gerstner former chairman and CEO of IBM
I think what my leadership style is to
get people to fear staying in place to
fear not changing when IBM suffered its
first major financial setback in the
early 90s its board dethroned its CEO
and initiated a desperate search for a
fitting successor the only candidate
interested was one Louis Vincent
Gerstner who was previously an exec at
American Express and CEO of RJR nabisco
I don’t think you can have a great need
to be loved and be an effective change
agent despite his outsider status in the
tech industry Gerstner x’ managerial
efforts not only kept IBM afloat they
resulted in what’s commonly labeled one
of the most impressive reversals of
fortune ever
with Kirchner’s focus on the internet
and IT services credited with saving the
tech giant from bankruptcy
IBM arguably was the most successful
private enterprise in the world for two
or three decades and so the culture had
to be productive at that time but it had
gotten off track I mean it had just lost
its way and now I had to go in and I had
I had to change that culture number five
Tim Cook CEO of Apple Inc we’re very
simple people at Apple we focus on
making the world’s best products and
enriching people’s lives when Apple’s
co-founder and then CEO Steve Jobs
required a string of medical leaves
throughout the 2000s his close friend
and personal choice to take over Tim
Cook was the Willing appointee that kept
the tech multinationals operations
running I’m a workaholic which which
helps after Jobs passing in 2011 Cooke
continued to lead Apple by updating its
ever so popular line of iPod iPhone and
Macintosh products it is the best Mac
we’ve ever made
the company also expanded its
humanitarian efforts under cooks
leadership having immensely increased
its donations and ties to charities
civil rights groups and global
sustainability organizations one of the
key principles in the UN Charter is to
reaffirm faith in fundamental human
rights in the dignity and worth of the
human person in the Equal Rights of men
and women and Nations large and small
these are very simple yet very powerful
words and they are at the core of my
beliefs and values
number four Lakshmi Mittal chairman and
CEO of ArcelorMittal we have succeeded
in transforming ourselves into
profitable and sustainable industry with
more than 10 in 10,000 employees the
company spans the globe as partial owner
chairman and CEO of the world’s largest
producer of steel Mittal has been
appropriately dubbed the king of steel
beyond the borders of his metallic
Empire Mittal retains high executive
status in other companies notably as a
member of the boards of directors of
both Goldman Sachs and Airbus group his
generosity as a philanthropist have
garnered him further prominence as he
helped form a number of nonprofit
organizations and donated millions to
underfunded hospitals being responsible
is vital to a company’s long-term
success I have always believed this
because being responsible not only has
benefits for society it has clear
benefits for the business number three
Roberto goiz Wetty former chairman and
CEO of the coca-cola company the true
heritage of the coca-cola system is his
courage this native of Cuba made
coca-cola the brand it is today working
his way up the corporate ladder boys
sweat began his coke career as a bottler
eventually taking a chemical engineering
job and finally earning the top job in
1980 although he was also the man behind
the New Coke fiasco and the company’s
acquisition and eventual sale of
Columbia Pictures
boy sweater also brought us diet coke
just for the taste of
ultimately becoming one of the few
people with Coca Cola’s secret formula
boys sweater was responsible for
expansion efforts that saw Coke become
an undeniably global brand we were a
company which was an American company
headquartered in Atlanta that had
accessible international business today
we are an international company that
happens to be headquartered in Atlanta
Georgia
number two Alfred P Sloan former
chairman president and CEO of General
Motors it was a tremendous reward for a
tremendous accomplishment that’s what
made America possible placed at the helm
of GM at the dawn of the roaring 20s
Sloan captained the company through good
times and bad surviving the Great
Depression and World War two he was also
a well-known philanthropist with the
Alfred P sloan Foundation becoming an
important charitable organization in the
US I feel very strongly that American
enterprise was the call for enterprise
and individual enterprise and kind of
real responsibility to support our
institutions of higher life
credited with influencing companies
beyond the auto industry Sloan was
responsible for breakthrough business
practices that have since become
standard for many competitors and
sectors including annual style changes
and planned obsolescence with Sloan’s
leadership and ingenious methods in
place GM stayed strong long after his
departure in 1956 I think the
opportunity it offers the most and
through life and in a competence after
life is to obtain the franchise if a
good automobile before we get to our
most influential business executive here
are a few honorable mentions Michael
Eisner and welcome to the Disney Sunday
movie
I am very invested in not just Disney
today but Disney long-term well beyond
my tenure as CEO very powerful
megatrends are forcing us to change the
way technology is consumed delivered and
paid for to us sustainable development
is a race with no finish line
it requires leadership that sets high
expectations and clear direction an
innovation that constantly pushes the
frontier of what is possible
number one Jack Welch former chairman
and CEO of General Electric Neutron Jack
began his career with the general in
1960 as a chemical engineer there are
all kinds of opportunities either as
entrepreneurs or in companies but it’s
going to take a passion and a drive that
seconds and nothing they have seen
before just over 20 years later he
became the company’s youngest CEO and
began utilizing tactics which although
considered brutal were ultimately
successful and respected by the
competition some of these practices
included firing the bottom 10% of his
managers each year and getting out of
unsuccessful product segments now on the
27 810 you don’t win you don’t buy next
year you won’t be big they’re getting
appraised here find a job else missed
time for you and the early you do it if
you can do it soon before they’re 35
well you know they’re not gonna fit
that’s the kind of game of all despite
these unorthodox practices GES value
rose by 4,000 percent during Welch’s
time at the company and today retains
its potency as an international
conglomerate by continuing to promote
the business methods he initiated
winning is great winning is so good the
companies when people win do you agree
with our list which business exec do you
think is the most influential for more
powerful top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com you
know I got to tell you what is your last
turn at bat
it sure is nice to hit home
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