Today, Fortune Magazine released their annual listing of THE WORLD'S 50 GREATEST LEADERS.
Chance the Rapper is #46. OK, yeah.
Shakira is #27. What? There are only 26 people on the planet with more "leadership" than Ms. Shakey-Shakey-Latina-Booty? Hmmmmm.
Joe Biden is #23. (Barack, Hillary and Donald did not make the list)
Queen Janet Yellen is #17.
LeBron James is #11.
The Pope...... THE POPE!!...... is #3.
Who in the world is more of a leader than THE POPE?
#1: Theo Epstein. Yeah, that Theo. Theo of the Chicago Cubs.
In his book The Cubs Way, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer Tom Verducci details the five-year rebuilding plan that led to the team’s victory. The Cubs owe their success to a concatenation of different leadership styles, from the affable patience of owner Tom Ricketts to the innovative eccentricity of manager Joe Maddon. But most important of all was the evolution of club president Theo Epstein, the wunderkind executive who realized he would need to grow as a leader in order to replicate in Chicago the success he’d had with the Boston Red Sox. In the following passages, Verducci describes how a deeper understanding of important human qualities among his players—the character, discipline, and chemistry that turn skilled athletes into leaders—enabled Epstein to engineer one of the most remarkable turnarounds in sports.
Read on:
WOW -- His momma must be very proud.
Here's the full list of 50 with a bio of each:
Out for now........
Matt