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Lily Mae Lazarus

What a 35-year CEO tenure reveals about adaptability, succession, and staying sharp at the to

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As Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett prepares to retire, Aflac’s longtime CEO, Dan Amos, is poised to become the longest-serving chief executive in the Fortune 250. Amos has led Aflac for 35 years and has spent more than five decades at the company his family founded.

In an era of executive churn, where the average tenure of a Fortune 500 CEO is approximately seven years, Amos stands out not just for his longevity, but for how he has sustained it. Under his leadership, the supplemental life insurance company has grown into a $55.7 billion business with nearly $19 billion in annual revenue.“I enjoy what I do,” Amos tells Fortune. “If you don’t enjoy it, you can’t do it for very long.”

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