FORTUNE'S FANTASY EXECUTIVE LEAGUE: OUR 2012 SQUAD ISN'T JUST A COLLECTION OF ALL-STARS, THEY'RE ALSO TEAM PLAYERS - STARTING LINEUP

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BUSINESS IS INCREASINGLY a team sport: Consider that the number of positions reporting directly to the CEO at Fortune 500 companies has doubled in the past 20 years, to 9.8 on average, reports Julie Wulf of the Harvard Business School. That top team is now far more heavily weighted to ward functional specialists - marketers, technologists, HR chiefs, designers - and less toward general managers of business units. In other words: a real team. For the second year in a row, Fortune's editors pondered the question, what would the ultimate executive suite look like? (We also asked our readers to field their own dream teams in an online contest.