Ford's CEO Alan Mulally has made it to the final round in Fortune's contest which awards one exceptional business leader the title, Businessperson of the Year 2010. Mulally faces off against Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. While Steve Jobs represents a company that thrives on innovation, Mulally has proven that Ford is a company that cannot be stopped.
In the first round of the contest Mulally beat out Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, with 64% of the votes compared to Zuckerberg's 36%.
In the second round, Mulally beat Michael Duke, the CEO of Wal-Mart, with an astounding 94% of the votes while Duke only held 6%.
In the third round, Mulally was up against Ellen Kullman. Kullman is the CEO of DuPont and she only received 25% of the votes while Mulally held 75%.
In the fourth round, Mulally blew Warren Buffett out of the water with 94% of the votes.
Other notable industry leaders that were featured in the competition were Bob Igler (CEO,Disney), Jeff Bezeo (CEO,Amazon), Reed Hastings (CEO,Netflix), Eric Schmidt (CEO,Google), and Lloyd Blankfein (CEO,Goldman Sachs).
The contest will conclude on Thursday November 18th. Please be sure to visit the link below and vote!
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/businessperson_year/2010/poll/index.html
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