Acknowledgments

We are grateful to several people without whom the book you hold in your hands would not exist.

Our thanks go, first, to three journalists who helped us report and write the book and deserve a substantial part of the credit for any merits it may possess. Susan Warner, a former business reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, who is now a freelance writer, was responsible for seven of the leaders (Herb Kelleher, Jack Welch, Sam Walton, Lee Iacocca, Michael Dell, Frederick Smith, and Richard Branson); Sandeep Junnarkar, former New York bureau chief for CNET News.com, who now teaches business and online journalism at Indiana University in Bloomington, was responsible for six of the 25 (Jeff Bezos, Peter Drucker, Ted Turner, Lou Gerstner, ...

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