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America's Best Leaders 2008 PDF Print E-mail

Gergen: Obama Is a Leader of Enormous Potential, but He Can’t Do It Alone
As the United States economy has cratered, it has become increasingly apparent that we are suffering not just from a failure of institutions but, more deeply, from a failure of leaders across those institutions.

Nye: America Needs a New Style of Leadership
Americans chose a new leader on November 4, and now we also need to change the way we think about leadership.

Kellerman: Barack Obama’s Election Culminates the Year of the Follower
Notwithstanding the mood of the moment—which is to lionize the leader—this was the year of the follower.

George: Restoring Trust in Wall Street Leadership
The devastating financial crisis of 2008 has claimed another casualty: trust in leaders of America's most important financial institutions.

Grooming Tomorrow's Leaders at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership
If baby boomers had enjoyed access to the kinds of leadership tools now available, they might have attained their goals much more quickly.

How America's Best Leaders Were Picked

Who Do You Think is a Best Leader?
Tell us whom we missed on this year's list of America's Best Leaders


2008 Honorees:

Lance Armstrong
Cyclist; Founder, Lance Armstorng Foundation

Dr. David Balitmore
Professor of Biology; Former President of California Institute of Technology

Regina Benjamin
Founder & CEO, Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic

Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO, Amazon.com

Terence Blanchard & Herbie Hancock
Artistic Director & Chariman, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Arts

Benjamin Carson
Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University

Marian Wright Edelman
Founder & President, Children's Defense Fund

Manny Diaz
Mayor of Miami, FL

Anthony Fauci
Director, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease

Mike Feinberg & Dave Levin
Cofounders, Knowledge Is Power Program

Robert Gates
U.S. Secretary of Defense

Fiona Harrison & Maria Zuber
Cofounder & CEO, Endeavor

Freeman Hrabowski III
President, University of Maryland, Balitmore County

Amory B. Lovins
Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute

Anne Mulcahy
CEO, Xerox

Indra Nooyi
CEO, PepsiCo.

Linda Rottenberg
Cofounder & CEO, Endeavor

Jeffrey Sachs
Director, United Nations Millennium Project

Steven Spielberg
Director & producer; Founder, The Shoah Foundation

Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor; Founder, New World Symphony Arts

U.S. Junior Officers
U.S. Armed Forces

 
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