09/09/2004, 4:05pm, EDT
Thursday, September 9th
Apple, Pixar among most innovative companies
More than half (52%) of business executives consider Henry Ford to be the most innovative entrepreneur, followed by Sam Walton (48%) and Walt Disney (41%). Donald Trump was the least popular among survey respondents, only favored by five percent.
Executives named Mahatma Gandhi (56%), Martin Luther King, Jr. (45%) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (42%) as the most innovative political/government leaders. Nearly 60 percent named Warren Buffet, followed by Jack Welch (42%), Lou Gerstner (32%) and Bill Gates (29%), as the business leader for whom they would vote for president. More than 60 percent of respondents named former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, followed by Alan Greenspan (53%) and Bill Clinton (34%), as a political leader who would make the most effective business executive.
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More than half of those surveyed named the personal computer (56%) and the Internet (51%) as the greatest innovations of the past 75 years, followed by DNA (49%) and television (34%).
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I'm surprised they also left of viral marketing...
Only in America is grand theft considered innovative. Ah, the rules of business. The road ahead indeed.
Jeez. He's got to be hating getting those votes - he KNOWS that he doesn't deserve it.
SB