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Houston billionaire scores high marks on list of top CEOs at Fortune 100 companies

UPDATE: The original article referenced information from a ranking from Upslide that incorrectly reported Jim Teague's Glassdoor employee approval ratings as 9 percent — rather than his actual approval rating of 96 percent.
The corrected information is below and the headline has been changed to reflect the correction.
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CEO A.J. “Jim” Teague, of Houston-based pipeline company Enterprise Products Partners LP, CEO A.J. "Jim" Teague, of Houston-based pipeline company Enterprise Products Partners LP, has received top marks according to Glassdoor data. Teague receives 96 percent approval rating from employees who've reviewed him on the platform, according to Glassdoor.
The Money Inc. website says Teague, who became CEO in 2016, is working to reconfigure the culture at Enterprise Products Partners. “His goal is to shape that culture so that the company itself can become more popular with the general public,” the website notes.
In December, the Greater Houston Port Bureau named him its 2020 Maritime Leader of the Year to recognize his support of the Houston Ship Channel.
“Building on the legacy of the late Dan L. Duncan, who started Enterprise in 1968, Teague has remained loyal to the founder’s values of hard work, integrity, and perseverance, with an uncompromising commitment to safety,” the bureau says in a release.
Other Texans share Teague's accolades. As Fortune magazine once observed, Michael Dell’s leadership style revolves around “vision, inspiration, curiosity, and ultimately passion.” And as it turns out, employees of Round Rock-based Dell Technologies Inc. are equally passionate about their company’s chairman and CEO.
The Upslide ranking puts Dell in seventh place, one spot behind Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The data shows Dell enjoys a 97 percent approval rating from employees of Dell Technologies.
In October 2013, Forbes magazine offered a glimpse into how Dell interacts with employees of the tech company he founded in 1984.
After speaking to a group of Dell workers for about 45 minutes, “more than a dozen employees rush forward to have their picture taken with their iconic chief,” Forbes wrote, “because they know he’ll happily pose — something not many other tech executives would do. He doesn’t disappoint. And he leaves them laughing and cheering again after answering a question about what’s keeping him up at night. ‘I’ve been sleeping pretty well lately.’”
You might be sleeping pretty well, too, if your net worth were $31.4 billion, making Dell the richest person in Austin and the 18th richest person in the U.S.
Appearing at No. 8 on UpSlide’s list of the top 10 CEOs at Fortune 100 companies is another Texan: Kelcy Warren, chairman and CEO of Dallas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners. Warren’s employee rating on Glassdoor stands at 97 percent, UpSlide says.
The respect paid to Warren by Energy Transfer Partner employees almost certainly stems, at least in part, from his laid-back demeanor. He reportedly favors a “non-hierarchical, collaborative management style.”
“For all of his success, Warren remains a small-town sort of guy who likes to have buddies to his Dallas mansion on Wednesdays for beers, shuffleboard, and chain yanking,” according to a 2015 article published by the Bloomberg news service.
With a net worth of $4.3 billion, Warren ranks 159th on Forbes’ list of the richest Americans.