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President of Apple, Steve Jobs, has been recognized by the prestigious Fortune magazine as the “CEO of the Decade” on 5th NOV 2009, highlighting his role in the remaking of multiple industries and propelling Apple to continued success despite difficult economic conditions. In the last ten years, Steve Jobs has helped make Apple flush with cash, with the company reporting record earnings and profits. Apple has become a tough act to follow in retail, and is a leader in portable music devices, digital music sales, smartphones, mobile app sales, and movie downloads. With such momentum behind him, Jobs may yet be the CEO of the next decade as well.

Steve Jobs became a wildly successful businessman in his late 20s and early 30s as Apple rose to prominence as an early leader in home computing. However, there are numerous anecdotes of his petulant behavior that ultimately resulted in his ouster from the company he helped found in 1985. When Jobs returned in 1997, he not only steered Apple away from possible self-destruction, he helped chart a course that led Apple to become a powerhouse in three separate industries: music, movies and mobile phones. Arguably, the company’s iconic status in personal computing has only grown — while Apple doesn’t garner a large share of the market by unit sales, it still often sets the bar for ease of use and high style.

Steve Jobs is admired by geeks and businessmen alike, and his successes (and failures) with Apple, NeXT, Pixar, and Apple again fill the pages of numerous books. Given Apple’s meteoric rise from near-bankruptcy in 1997 to the technology leader that everyone is trying to follow today, there’s no surprise that Steve Jobs is crowned “CEO of the Decade”.

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