The online jobs forum and careers website ‘Glassdoor’ recently released the list of top 50 CEOs based on the feedback of thousands of U.S. employees. It is the third annual Employees’ Choice Awards for the Highest Rated CEOs. The survey was conducted from 21st April 2014 to 22nd April 2015 in which the employees voluntarily and anonymously provided feedback of their company CEOs.
Here is the Complete List Of Top 50 Most Beloved & Popular CEOs of America 2015:
1) Larry Page
Company – Google
Notable Quote – Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don’t believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.
2) Mark G. Parker
Company – Nike
Notable Quote – “The best way to stay cool is to not try to be cool. The consumer can smell a company trying to be cool a million miles away.”
3) Charles C. Butt
Company – HEB
4) Mark Zuckerberg
Company – Facebook
Notable Quote – “My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being ‘just’ a company means to me is building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.”
5) Scott Scherr
Company – Ultimate Software
6) Hugh Grant
Company – Monsanto
Notable Quote – For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that’s just the price of being first sometimes.
7) Lloyd C. Blankfein
Company – Goldman Sachs
Notable Quote – ‘Risk management isn’t about getting risk right all the time. It’s about trying to get risk right all the time’:
8) John E. Schlifske
Company – Northwest Mutual
9) Glenn Johnson
Company – Insight Global
10) Tim Cook
Company – Apple
Notable Quote –Too often people think about intuition as the same as relying on luck or faith. At least as I see it, nothing could be further from the truth. Intuition can tell you, of the doors that are open to you, which one you should walk through. But intuition cannot prepare you for what’s on the other side of that door.
11) Dara Khosrowshahi
Company – Expedia
Notable Quote – “The hardest thing for us is to build is lasting consumer loyalty. The average consumer shops at three sites; we want to be two of those three sites.”
12) Jeff Weiner
Company – Linkedin
Notable Quote – “Treat employees “like adults” and be completely transparent. It provides optics into what’s working around the company and what’s not. It also breeds a sense of trust within the company, so employees are far less likely to leak sensitive information.”
13) Craig Jelinek
Company – Costco
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14) John Legere
Company – T Mobile
15) Jim Weddle
Company – Edward Jones
Notable Quote – If you’re recruiting better people who have been more successful in the past, you have to be willing to pay them.
16) John S. Watson
Company – Chevron
Notable Quote – If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There’s a reason for that. If you’re worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.
17) Calvin McDonald
Company – Sephora
18) Mark Weinberger
Company – EY
19) A. G. Lafley
Company – P&G
Notable Quote – “If the leader doesn’t set the standards, it won’t happen. Employees watch every move you make and don’t make. If you don’t truly live the values and standards, you won’t have them!”
20) Lyndon Rive
Company – SolarCity
21) Marc Benioff
Company – Salesforce
Notable Quote – “I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It’s crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners… employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn’t your workplace reflect your values? Why is ‘giving back’ not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.”
22) Jeremy Stoppelman
Company – Yelp
Notable Quote – The more you put yourself out there and try, the more likely you are to succeed.
23) Martin Mucci
Company – Paychex
24) Omar S. Ishrak
Company – Medtronic
25) Corey Schiller
Company – Power
26) Mickey Drexler
Company – J. Crew
Notable Quote – “I think the key to success is vision that adjusts on the way, but doesn’t at all falter. It’s about not compromising and following your gut to a certain degree, based on knowledge, instinct, etc. And not listing to the naysayers…. You develop strength through adversity. You have to keep moving towards your goal through huge obstacles. It’s not easy. Especially a business like this where there are so many moving parts. You have to build a good team and know who’s good and not good and you have to keep raising the bar on your life. For me it’s always, ‘I have to get up and do a little better today and go to work to learn.”
27) Alex Gorsky
Company – Johnson & Johnson
28) Danny Wegman
Company – Wegmans
29) Blake W. Nordstrom
Company – Nordstrom
30) Fred Smith
Company – FedEx
Notable Quote – “Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves—and by which they are willing to be judged.”
31) Howard D. Schultz
Company – Starbucks
32) John B. Veihmeyer
Company – KPMG
33) Frank D’souza
Company – Cognizant
34) Thomas E. Richards
Company – CDW
35) Dr. Vishal Sikka
Company – Infosys
36) Brad Smith
Company – Intuit
Notable Quote – I’m a flawed person who makes a lot of mistakes. But I will tell you that once I make a mistake, I will never make it again.
37) Bob Iger
Company – The Walt Disney Company
Notable Quote – “It’s in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.”
38) William McNabb
Company – Vanguard
39) Brian M. Krzanich
Company – Intel
40) Joseph A. Tarantino
Company – Protiviti
41) Tom Linebarger
Company – Cummins
42) Kenneth Oaks
Company – Total Quality Logistics
43) Kevin A. Lobo
Company – Stryker
Notable Quote – We need to be market leaders in the areas that we choose to play in, we’ll look at deals of all different sizes … to strengthen our position.
44) Bill Emerson
Company – Quicken Loans
45) Brad Jackson
Company – Slalom
46) Christopher M. Connor
Company – Sherwin-Williams
47) Shantanu Narayen
Company – Adobe
48) Brian Chesky
Company – Airbnb
Notable Quote – “Think about it this way- if your company is like your child — a parent wants his child to outlive him or her.”
49) Richard H. Anderson
Company – Delta
50) Arne Sorenson
Company – Marriot
Notable Quote – “Hospitality is by definition a diverse industry.”
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