Good morning.
I’m back from a two-week rafting trip through the Grand Canyon—which I highly recommend—where I was offline for the longest period in my professional life. Instead of mulling news about Modi, Macron or Trump, my son and I debated the leadership of Gilgamesh, an arrogant and powerful Sumerian king whose mythic efforts to conquer death were chronicled in an epic written 4,000 years ago. What redeems him, I think, is his transformation from pursuing longevity to building a legacy.
I thought of that when Fortune partnered with Indiggo to publish the fourth annual ROL100® ranking that measures the so-called “ReturnOnLeadership” of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500. It scores a company’s capacity for execution through its leaders, based on four key drivers—connection to purpose, strategic clarity, leadership alignment, and focused action—and 16 indicators culled from publicly available data. Here’s more analysis from my colleague Lance Lambert.
