Top 10 CEOs Of 2000 Their Methods Offer Lessons In How To Excel.(A)(Leaders & Success)

As the pressures of time and technology intensify, American businesses are operating at a fiercely competitive clip demanding that today's chief executivehave not only a strong vision, but a powerful will to transform that vision into reality - at Internet speeds.

Below is Investor's Business Daily's selection of 10 such CEOs - the Top 10 Leaders & Success CEOs for 2000.

To select the 10, a team of IBD editors reviewed Leaders & Success artic

les written on current CEOs in 2000. The editors evaluated numerous excellent candidates, choosing those they felt best captured the spirit of ingenuity, innovation and success.

The following 10 were selected; no rankings among them were made. Each CEO has something to teach - a special, sometimes quirky, way to get things done.

Jorma Ollila. As chief executive of Finland's Nokia Corp., Ollila powered his wireless phone company to the lead position in 1999 by capturing 27% of the mobile handset market, ahead of second-place Motorola with 17%. He doubled revenue from $10 billion in 1997 to $20.6 billion in 1999.

Musical chairs: Ollila called in his four division managers more than two yearsago and ordered them to swap jobs with each other. "I want to remove stubbornness that gets built into the minds of people," Ollila said. "We want to build a certain amount of chaos and a sense of urgency. Switching (jobs) also helps people learn from one another. . It's cross-fertilization."