I know that someone who was voted by BBC viewers as the “Greatest Briton” may be a controversial choice, but his success was down to his ability to grasp issues, his decisiveness, his experience, a keen ambition, luck and sheer drive and hard work. All of which makes him a perfect chairman. He’s not been without controversy; his attempt to fix the value of the Pound to the price of gold (the Gold Standard) was a financial disaster and in his early years, he was synonymous with a military debacle at Gallipoli and suffered demotion because of it. This prize winning historian also said “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”. For that alone, he deserves his place.
Sales Director—Bernie Ebbers
For entertainment value, Ebbers has to be here. Unorthodox, straight talking and religious (he would often start meetings with a prayer), Ebbers was responsible for the largest bankruptcy in history. Through the 1990s his telecommunications company WorldCom acquired smaller competitors and Ebbers was lauded for his $40bn takeover of competitor, MCI.
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