The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch has named Steve Jobs as its choice of "Chief Executive Officer of the Decade".
It says the head of Apple is "mercurial and visionary...part rock-star CEO and part master salesman".
Apple's success figures speak for themselves. The company was worth $5-billion at the start of the decade after narrowly avoiding bankruptcy. It's now worth probably more than $300-billion and in that respect it overtook Microsoft this year. Apparently, Steve Jobs didn't stop smiling for a week.
If you'd invested $1,000 in Apple in 2000 (which I didn't), it would now be worth $43,000 (why didn't I!?).
Steve Jobs is a strange mixture: he can appear shy, but he loves getting on stage to launch a new Apple product in front of gasping hacks. He's known as a caring and nurturing boss, but in 2000 when Apple was floundering, stories emerged of him roaming the Apple corridors firing workers seemingly at random.
MarketWatch also credits Jobs with saving the recording industry almost single-handedly with the iPod and iTunes. Hey...no mean feat.
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