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The best leaders of 2011 Leadership experts share their picks with us for top leader of the year, from Hillary Clinton to Tim Tebow.
Tim Tebow
Alaina Love, author of "The Purpose Linked Organization," casts her vote for one of today's biggest football stars. "I am very impressed with Tim Tebow, the clutch-player, king-of-football quarterback for the Broncos."
Julie Jacobson
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AP
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Hillary Clinton
Michael Useem, author of "The Leader's Checklist" and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, picks Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "for her leadership of American foreign policy during a very tumultuous year with the Arab spring and beyond."
Kevin Lamarque
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Tim Cook
Leadership expert John Baldoni, author of the new book "Lead With Purpose," selects Tim Cook, the new chief executive officer of Apple, as this year's most notable leader.
David Paul Morris
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Bloomberg
The Gang of Six
Paul Portney, former dean of the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management, gives leadership accolades to the Gang of Six, including Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Saxby Chambliss (pictured here). "They deserve credit for risking ostracism to attempt to craft a bipartisan deficit reduction package. A pox on virtually all other members of Congress."
Bill O'Leary
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Angela Merkel
Leadership gurus Warren Bennis, author of "On Becoming a Leader", and Tom Peters, author of "In Search of Excellence," both nominate German Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to Peters, "How the recent EU agreement will spin itself out is very uncertain, and Chancellor Merkel was playing a reasonably strong hand. But there is no doubt that [with] shrewd, dogged domestic and EU-wide political gymnastics, she bent a continent, and perhaps the rest of us, to her will."
Sean Gallup
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Warren Buffett
Marie Wilson, founder of the White House Project and author of "Closing the Leadership Gap," casts her vote for Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway: "He's dealt with class and gender in interesting ways: His appeal for taxes on him and his wealthy colleagues was a statement about democracy that we needed. He has also been a great advocate for women's leadership. "
Tomohiro Ohsumi
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Bloomberg
Sam Palmisano
Harvard University leadership professor Bill George, author of "True North," calls IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano "the best CEO in the world. He retires this year after nine years at the helm. Has completely transformed IBM around an integrated global enterprise and leading by values."
Bill O'Leary
Christine Lagarde
Author of "The Silent Language of Leaders," Carol Goman picks Christine Lagarde as leader of the year. Lagarde replaced Dominque Strauss-Kahn as the head of the IMF, and is the first woman to head the organization.
Win McNamee
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs got the vote of two leadership experts: Alan Webber, a founding editor of Fast Company magazine, and Lisa Caputo, former press secretary for Hillary Rodham Clinton and now head of marketing and communications for Travelers. According to Weber, "We're going to miss him, so we should celebrate his departure."
Romeo Ranoco
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Reuters
Donald Berwick
Michael Maccoby, author of "The Leaders We Need," chose Donald Berwick, who was bypassed as President Obama's nominated director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: "Berwick emphasized that only by focusing on continual improved quality of care can we cut the costs of health care. Although Republican senators refused to confirm him, ostensibly because he once approved of the British system, he was able to set in place a strategy for shaping healthcare policy."
Ed Andrieski
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AP
Gen. Martin C. Dempsey
Col. Charles Allen, a leadership professor at the U.S. Army War College, casts his vote for Gen. Martin Dempsey, who has held three positions in 2011: commanding general of Training and Doctrine Command, chief of staff of the Army, and now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Lee Jin-man
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AP
Scott Rudin
Barbara Kellerman, the founding executive director of Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership, selects producer Scott Rudin (pictured center), "whose influence on film, theater and popular culture is in the moment unmatched."
Lucy Nicholson
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![Leadership gurus Warren Bennis, author of 'On Becoming a Leader', and Tom Peters, author of 'In Search of Excellence,' both nominate German Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to Peters, 'How the recent EU agreement will spin itself out is very uncertain, and Chancellor Merkel was playing a reasonably strong hand. But there is no doubt that [with] shrewd, dogged domestic and EU-wide political gymnastics, she bent a continent, and perhaps the rest of us, to her will.'](/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2011/12/02/Foreign/Images/134506802.jpg)
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