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Retired Chairman, The Boeing Company

At 66, Jim McNerney still plays ice hockey.

One of his Frozen Assets teammates, who met him on the ice some 50 years ago, says McNerney remains the player who makes other people better. He sets them up for a shot and passes the puck at the right moment—sacrificing his own goal to help others make theirs.

Whether McNerney first learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune companies.

At the helm of Boeing for the last decade before stepping down recently, McNerney succeeded in helping the roughly ,employee firm find its way forward after a series of mergers and acquisitions, hig