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From the desk of Robert Reiss
The CEO Forum Team
Robert Reiss
CEO, Founder and Publisher
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Gina Leone
Associate Publisher
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Bill Peters
Managing Director
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VP Strategic Partnerships
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Genia Edelman
Producer
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Allison Burke
Deputy Editor
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In 1994, after reading Jim Collins’ book Built
to Last, I became a true student obsessed
with one question, “What makes a company
great?” My learning odyssey started with
incessant reading of hundreds and hundreds
of business books, which catapulted me
to shift my career to interviewing CEOs.
Since then, on The CEO Show, I have had
the privilege and honor of interviewing over
1,000 top CEOs and then capturing some
ideas in co-authoring The Transformative
CEO (McGraw-Hill 2012).
But it has taken me until today—almost
three decades later—to, for the first time in my career, assemble the quintessential
list of the 10 great businesses in America. In your hands you hold our first official
recognition of “The 10 Top Businesses in America, 2023.” We evaluated these
companies through the lens of being Transformative, meaning “Adding new value
that reinvigorates a company, reinvents an industry or reboots society.” Based on
this criteria, you will read verbatim stories—directly from their CEO—on their
vision, leadership philosophy and unique practices. Some companies you’ll know
well, some you may not have heard of yet.
Specifically, you will learn from Cognizant, a company of 355,000 really smart
people leading the charge in AI, to a single mom who built the largest womanowned portfolio of over 240 manufacturing businesses and, through a mission
of bringing dignity to work, saved over 700,000 jobs in America, to the visionary
who coined the concept of the “subscription economy,” which is the bedrock of
modern business, to the company Dale Carnegie, which over 100 years ago first
created the 30 core principles which are today the foundation of culture, DEI
and business transformation. You’ll learn from the leading company in perhaps
the backbone issue of the past few years which of course is supply chain, to the
only financial institution of 10,000 that is a completely digital credit union
with a unique customer centric model, to a leading CPG who has elevated the
bar on gender equity, to a visionary technology company who has bypassed all
competitors on culture and products through a powerful innovation model,
to a company transforming F&B, and finally to the courageous leader who has
brought to the forefront arguably the most painful—and significant—issue of all:
fighting human trafficking.
My hope is you will learn and share with other CEOs and together elevate
business, the economy, and society. And of course, please reach out to me directly
if you have any recommendations for our Top 10 Businesses in America in 2024
…which, as we know, will be here pretty soon!
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