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Is John Chambers the top performing Dow CEO?

Interestingly, the below Dow Leaderboard appears to be an optical illusion that differs materially from objective reality, especially upon further analysis.

Wed, 1/4/12 - 6:29pm    View comments

Is perception reality?

Well, it most certainly is when viewing the above Dow Leaderboard.

However, should you unfortunately be a hare-brain such as myself, you would probably start dividing the "Stock Under CEO" by the "Dow Under CEO."

And in a nutshell, that "simple division" gives a whole new meaning to who's actually the top performing CEO on the Dow (hint, it's NOT Cisco CEO John Chambers who appears to be the beneficiary of an optical illusion).

What's your take?

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