道格?奧伯赫爾曼

????公司：卡特彼勒

????《財富》500強排名：42

????奧伯赫爾曼的父親是約翰迪爾公司（John Deere）的一名銷售員。他一直都很喜歡重型機械，所以，1975年，卡特彼勒公司給剛剛大學畢業(yè)的他提供一份信用分析員的工作時，他欣然接受。他從沒想過自己會在這里工作一輩子，甚至成為公司的CEO（“我當時都不知道自己是否清楚CEO到底是干什么的，”他說），但每當有新的機遇出現(xiàn)時，他的眼界也會隨之改變。奧伯赫爾曼曾被派往南美洲，這次任命恰逢拉丁美洲債務危機，他的任務是收回公司的設(shè)備；之后他又負責公司在日本的業(yè)務。他說：“面臨挑戰(zhàn)時，經(jīng)驗非常有用。對于業(yè)務上正在發(fā)生的事，你可以做到心領(lǐng)神會。而且，我對公司350位高層領(lǐng)導都有實質(zhì)的了解——因為我的整個職業(yè)生涯都在這里度過。”他保證要帶領(lǐng)卡特彼勒擺脫泡沫，不過：奧伯赫爾曼非常重視與同行在一起的時間，以確保自己按照必要的速度完成公司的改革。

Doug Oberhelman

????Company: Caterpillar

????Fortune 500 rank: 42

????Oberhelman, the son of a John Deere salesman, had always liked heavy equipment, so in 1975 when Caterpillar offered him a job as a credit analyst straight out of college, he took it. He never imagined he'd be there for life or ever become CEO ("I'm not sure I knew what a CEO was then," he says), but his outlook changed with each new interesting opportunity. Oberhelman was sent to South America, a stint that coincided with the Latin American debt crisis and involved re-possessing equipment; and later to run operations in Japan. "When things are challenging, experience is wildly helpful. You appreciate what's going on in the business. And I know virtually all of the top 350 leaders here—I have my entire career," he says. He makes sure to get out of the Caterpillar bubble, however: Oberhelman prioritizes time with peer CEOs to make sure he is pushing and changing the company as fast as he needs to be.