Jobs in 2005 watch list

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is named among the as noted by the Wall Street Journal's Online Journal editors. The report, which highlights "men and women who are set to shape the course of business, politics and world affairs in the next year," cites both of Jobs' "hot streaks"--Pixar and Apple (both the iPod and Mac marketshare challenges). Others noted include Nick Denton (online publisher), James Dimon (J.P. Morgan Chase CEO), Robert Iger (Walt Disney CEO), Mel Karmazin (Sirius Satellite Radio CEO), Neelie Kroes (European Union competition commissioner), Edward S. Lampert (Kmart chairman), Michael Leavitt (appointed Health and Human Services secretary), Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan president), Martha Stewart, John Thain (NYSE CEO), Evan Wolfson (Freedom to Marry executive), and Viktor Yushchenko (Ukraine politician).

by MacNN Staff