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December 2016 | MensHealth.com 83

Knowing how to manage

attention deficit hyper-

activity disorder can lead

to uncommon success.

By Brian Fiske

HOW ADHD

MADE ME A

BETTER CEO

Picture this: You’re in your early

20s and the travel company you

started—and quit college to run—

fails. So you start another company

and sell it to Southwest Airlines

for $129 million; your cut is more

than $20 million. But you’re fired

five months later. You then launch

another airline—JetBlue. It’s a

huge hit, but eventually you’re

removed as CEO and leave the

company. Your next move: Start

another airline. Tired yet?

This is the career flight path of

David Neeleman, 57, who’s now

CEO of Azul, a Brazilian airline with

some 10,000 employees serving

24 million passengers a year, and

co-owner of Portugal’s national air

carrier, TAP Portugal.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENEDICT EVANS

This airline CEO

is unfazed by the

constant chaos

of a bustling

airport terminal.

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