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Like the paths taken by many of the individuals profiled in this book, our journey was not a linear one. It was filled with many interesting twists and turns, a few disappointments and frustrations, many difficult yet exciting challenges, and some incredible “aha!” moments. When we began our journey to create a canon of great business leaders in the summer of 2001, we had only a vague notion of the task that lay ahead. Our guides were the one thousand business executives we studied. Some were true heroes who inspired us, some were legends who awed us, and some could even be considered villains (especially looking back with a twenty-first-century lens), but most were simply individuals who made the best of their times. It is ...
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