Steve Jobs
Those that know me, know I find Steve Jobs an American icon. Rumors abound that he does not approach management as an art to be practiced. I respect his accomplishments, not his management style (or lack thereof!). It appears that with the latest release of the Mac OS and the new iMacs, there is finally a computer worthy of replacing my NeXTstation.
For some reason I have yet to determine, Low End Mac has a great archive of Mac history, one post talks about Jobs and NeXTstep which begat Mac OS v10.x and here is the link:
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/1115.html
-ski