What a difference 14 years makes. When Steve Jobs returned to the CEO job at Apple in 1997, the company was painted by pundits and the public as being on its deathbed. Today, as his successor Tim Cook formally takes over the most highly-valued tech company in the world, the consensus among business leaders and analysts is that the executive team Jobs assembled has the talent and vision among them to keep Apple growing and innovating for the foreseeable future.