Top 10 Business Leaders of the World

 In the corporate world where  money reigns supreme and people with most cash wear the crown. Business leaders continue to inspire us and we hope someday that we will be like them.Many rise from rags to riches,  some  enhance their  family business and some happen to be geniuses who have created a parallel world of technology.

Being a leader is not an easy job. With great power comes great responsibility as said by spider-man! Below is the selection of the finest business leaders who have made a mark in this world on the basis of their skills abilities , knowledge and objectives.

1. Bill Gates

During the past 25 years technology was the choice of industry for most people. Bill Gates is a classic example of an exemplary business leader of the past quarter-century for his mix of entrepreneurial energy, dogged leadership and philanthropic interest. Bill Gates to date is the biggest philanthropist in the world.

2. Carlos Slim

Carlos spent 46  years of his life to build  his  telecommunication empire. He has been the richest man in the world for the past two years consecutively. He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telemex and America Movil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SAB, as well as business interests elsewhere in the world.

3. Warren Buffett

Buffett has become the most successful investor in the world by sinking his money into undervalued companies with low overhead costs, high growth potential, strong market shares and low price-to-earnings ratios. He is the opposite of get rich quick schemers that has ironically made him one of the  richest men in the world today. He is also a generous philanthropist and has donated $31 billion to Bill and Melinda Gates  foundation.

4. Margret “Meg” Whitman

An alma mater of  Harvard business school Meg Whitman is the first woman  in the world  to become a billionaire on the internet. Currently the CEO of Hewlett Packard, she was the CEO of e-bay from 1998- 2008. During her tenure she  expanded to company  from 30 employees to  15000 employees. She was  one the top 5  most powerful women featured in Fortune magazine.

5. Chad Hurley , Steve Chen and Jawad Karim

The  co founders of you tube were declared the best leaders by business week in 2008. They showed the world how to build great companies while treating employees well, how to improve dysfunctional corporate cultures, reinvigorate tired brands, and develop new strategic plans. They surprised us with bold decisions and acquisitions

6. Nadja  Swarovoski

As the great great grand daughter of the founder of  Swarovoski she has brought the brand to new heights.With equal parts glamour and shrewd marketing, she has relentlessly pushed Swarovski into the realms of celebrity and fashion. Notice all those crystal-studded gowns on Oscar night? That’s because Nadja persuades designers such as Alexander McQueen and Zac Posen to embellish their creations with crystal. She also links up with well-known artists, furnishing them crystal to make everything from chandeliers to handbags, then displaying their work during major art shows and fashion events. Sales have tripled  under her leadership.

7. Robin-Li

The brains  behind  China’s  largest search engine Baidu. He has been able to acheive what  microsoft  has not- beating  Google. By far China’s No.1 search engine, Baidu has a 62% market share, more than double Google’s. And Baidu widened its lead over the Americans in 2006, despite Google’s efforts to boost its China operation. Li, 38, has had his problems, including lawsuits alleging Baidu’s involvement in click-fraud. But Baidu denies wrongdoing. Its NASDAQ-listed stock is up over 80%  in 2008.

8. Dan DiMicco

Mr. DiMicco brings more than 35 years of steel industry experience to Nucors Board.Since joining Nucor in 1982, Mr. DiMicco has worked in a wide variety of roles at all levels of the Company, including nine years as Vice President of Nucor Corporation and President of Nucor-Yamato Steel Company (Limited Partnership), gaining a deep understanding of Nucors operations and Nucors unique organizational culture and values.

9. Jack Welch

Welch adopted Motorola’s six sigma quality program in late 1995. In 1980, the year before Welch became CEO, GE recorded revenues of roughly $26.8 billion. In 2000, the year before he left, the revenues increased to nearly $130 billion. When Jack Welch left GE, the company had gone from a market value of $14 billion to one of more than $410 billion at the end of 2004, making it the most valuable and largest company in the world.

10. Steve Jobs

Although  Steve jobs has passed away  he will be the epitome of a great  business leader. He is a leader in terms of design, in terms of innovation and also when it comes to making a comeback  no one did it better than Steve. He is the inspiration for Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley and other inernet moguls. He was  fired  from a company that he had made and then came back after one year stronger than ever.He is dead but his immortality lives when it  comes to leadership in  business.