Apple's Steve Jobs Voted Top Business Leader of the Decade

Posted by Liz Dean on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 @ 04:16 PM

More than 1,000 votes were cast in response to February's poll question: Who was the top business leader of the past 10 years? As part of our 10th anniversary celebration, the Stevie® Awards, organizer of the world’s premier business awards, has introduced a monthly poll series to help celebrate the people, organizations, events, and products that have shaped our lives throughout the past decade.

You voted Apple's Steve Jobs as the top business leader of the past decade, with 31% of all votes cast. 150 Steve Jobs Headshot 2010 resized 600

Other top business leaders included:

a) Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com - 5%

b) Richard Branson, Virgin Group - 5%

c) Sergey Brin/Larry Page, Google - 7%

d) Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway - 3%

e) Bill Gates, Microsoft - 23%

f) Naveen Jindal, Jindal Steel and Power - 2%

g) Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Company - 2%

h) Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Productions - 4%

i) Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook - 20%

We will introduce March's poll question, What's the top product of the past ten years? on the Stevie Awards' Facebook page early next week.

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