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Innovation rules the world of business. As a matter of fact, no business can survive in the long run without an innovative leader. Creativity, genius ideas and more importantly innovation capital are what set innovative leaders apart. This article will focus on the top 10 most innovative leaders in the world.

As of today, Jeff Bezos is the most innovative leader on earth. However, Forbes didn’t just arrive at this list. The most innovative leaders in the world are ranked based on four essential qualities. These qualities are; reputation for innovation, social connections, and networks (Twitter and LinkedIn), a track record for value creation and Investor expectations for future value creation.

Here are the top 10 most innovative leaders in the world. However, the full list of the 100 most innovative leaders in the world.

Top 10 Most Innovative Leaders In The World

#1. Jeff Bezos

Company: Amazon

Position: CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $450B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 366%

Innovation Premium: 72.8%


#2. Elon Musk

Elon Musk is also among the most innovative leaders in the world. As a matter of fact, Elon Musk has a track record for innovation and creativity.

Company: Tesla Motors

Position: CEO

3- Year Market Value Creation: $48B

3- Year Stock Market Gains: 819%

Innovation Premium: 79.9%

#3. Mark Zuckerberg



Mark Zuckerberg is obviously one of the youngest and most innovative leaders in the world. Equally, he is the CEO of Facebook and the youngest billionaire in the world as of today.

Company: Facebook

Position: CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $376B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 563%

Innovation Premium: 70%

#4. Tim Cook


Company: Apple

Position: CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $369B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 123%

Innovation Premium: 10%

#5. Satya Nadella



Satya Nadella definitely makes this list of the most innovative leaders in the world. As a matter of fact, his creativity and track records speak for him.

Company: Microsoft

Position: CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $278B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 84%

Innovation Premium: 26%


#6. Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff is a multi-faceted individual with a high level of innovation capital. Furthermore, he is an internet entrepreneur, billionaire, author, and philanthropist.

Company: Salesforce

Position: Chairman and Co-CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $50B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 143%

Innovation Premium: 82.4%

#7. Shantanu Narayen

Shantanu Narayen is an Indian American executive. His consistency, hard work, and creativity brought him this far.

Company: Adobe System

Position: CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $68B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 365%

Innovation Premium: 62.8%

#8. Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings is the man behind Netflix. Furthermore, he serves on the boards on Facebook.

Company: Netflix

Position: CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $78B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 1351%

Innovation Premium: 71.5%

#9. Jeff Weiner


If you are active on LinkedIn, you will probably know this guy. His creativity is second to none.

Company: LinkedIn

Position: CEO

3-Year Market Value Creation: $16B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 90%

Innovation Premium: 60%

#10. Larry Page

These two distinguish entrepreneurs are one of a kind. They Co-founded Google and Alphabet and these companies have grown to become multibillionaire dollars corporations.

Company: Alphabet

Position: Co-founder

3-Year Market Value Creation: $491B

3-Year Stock Market Gain: 197%

Innovation Premium: 37.5%

These are the top 10 most innovative leaders in the world. Watch out for the list of top 100 in 2019.

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Forbes list........ is their list.

in my own list..

my number one innovative leader is God.



be it in heaven
be it on earth
be it in hell.

He is number one.

What about abacha and babangida who are said to be saint according to the holy book of afonja?
Sai barbar

Redoil:
What about Buhari and babangida

This list doesn't involve politician, but people in the corporate world.

Redoil:
What about buhariabangida

Lol. they are innovative looters.