Today the famous magazine Time Magazine published the list of the most influential people of 2012 and of course the current CEO of Apple is present in it. Tim Cook ranks 58th in the list published by Time Magazine and his appearance in this top is of course due to the position he occupies within one of the most popular companies in the world. Tim Cook has been CEO of Apple since August 2011, but until then he held this position temporarily while Steve Jobs benefited from medical leave, and his experience and popularity helped the editors in making the decision.
It is difficult to imagine a harder challenge than following the legendary Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple. Yet Tim Cook, a soft-spoken, genuinely humble and quietly intense son of an Alabama shipyard worker and a homemaker, hasn't missed a single beat. Fiercely protective of Jobs' legacy and deeply immersed in Apple's culture, Cook, 51, has already led the world's most valuable and innovative company to new heights while implementing major policy changes smoothly and brilliantly.
He has indelibly imprinted his leadership on all areas of Apple — from managing its complex inner workings to identifying and shepherding new "insanely great" technology and design breakthroughs into the product pipeline. Cook's personal discipline, physical regimen and work hours reflect a philosophy summarized in his 2010 Auburn University commencement speech, in which he quoted President Lincoln: "I will prepare, and someday my chance will come." Highly ethical and always thoughtful, he projects calmness but can be tough as nails when necessary. Like the great conductor George Szell, Cook knows that his commitment to excellence is inseparable from the incredible ensemble he leads at Apple. Szell was noted for saying, "We begin where others leave off."
Cook's chance has come. What a beginning!
Each person present in the top was briefly described by a celebrity, and in the case of Tim Cook, the former vice president of the USA, Al Gore, wrote the lines above. Tim Cook is doing a very good job at Apple and we hope that in the future he will bring us products at least as good as those developed under the "order" of Steve Jobs. Here you have listed top 100 most influential people in the world according to Time Magazine.
