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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Thought Leaders - The Most Influential Management Gurus


Leadership consulting firm Crainer Dearlove surveyed 3,500 people and a panel of experts to determine the 2009 edition of the Thinkers 50, a biennial list of the most influential living management thinkers.


Rank : Name : 2007 Rank : Country : Day Job

1 C.K. Prahalad 1 India/U.S. University of Michigan Academic

2 Malcolm Gladwell 18 Canada New Yorker Columnist

3 Paul Krugman - U.S. Princeton Academic

4 Steve Jobs 29 U.S. CEO of Apple

5 W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne 6 Korea/U.S. Insead Academics

6 Muhammad Yunus - Bangladesh Founder of Grameen Bank, Economist

7 Bill Gates 2 U.S. Founder of Microsoft, Philanthropist

8 Richard Branson 9 U.K. Founder of Virgin, Entrepreneur

9 Philip Kotler 11 U.S. Northwestern University Academic

10 Gary Hamel 5 U.S. Co-founder Mlab, Consultant

11 Michael Porter 4 U.S. Harvard Academic

12 Ratan Tata - India Chairman of Tata

13 Ram Charan 22 India Executive Coach

14 Marshall Goldsmith 34 U.S. Executive Coach

15 S.Kris Gopalakrishnan - India Co-founder and CEO of Infosys

16 Howard Gardner 39 U.S. Harvard Academic

17 Jim Collins 10 U.S. Consultant

18 Lynda Gratton 19 U.K. London Business School Academic

19 Tom Peters 7 U.S. Consultant

20 Jack Welch 8 U.S. Retired Executive

21 Eric Schmidt - U.S. CEO of Google

22 Joseph Stiglitz - U.S. Columbia Academic

23 Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale 13 Sweden Speakers and Academics

24 Vijay Govindarajan 23 India/U.S. Academic in Residence for GE

25 Marcus Buckingham 38 U.K. Speaker

26 Richard D'Aveni 46 U.S. Dartmouth Academic

27 Rosabeth Moss Kanter 28 U.S. Harvard Academic

28 Clayton Christensen 25 U.S. Harvard Academic

29 Stephen Covey 15 U.S. Speaker and Author

30 Thomas Friedman 26 U.S. New York Times Columnist

31 David Ulrich 42 U.S. University of Michigan Academic

32 Roger Martin - Canada Dean of University of Toronto Rotman School

33 Henry Mintzberg 16 Canada McGill Academic

34 Daniel Goleman 37 U.S. Author and Consultant

35 Chris Anderson - U.S. Wired Editor-in-chief

36 Warren Bennis 24 U.S. University of Southern California Academic

37 Robert Kaplan & David Norton 12 U.S. Consultants

38 Jeff Immelt 31 U.S. CEO of General Electric

39 Don Tapscott - Canada Consultant

40 Nassim Taleb - Lebanon Academic

41 John Kotter 30 U.S. Harvard Academic

42 Niall Ferguson - U.K. Harvard and Oxford Academic

43 Charles Handy 14 Ireland Author

44 Rakesh Khurana 45 India/U.S. Harvard Academic

45 Manfred Kets De Vries - Holland Insead Academic

46 Tammy Erickson - U.S. Author and Consultant

47 Costas Markides 44 Cyprus London Business School Academic

48 Barbara Kellerman - U.S. Harvard Academic

49 Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones 32 U.K. Academics

50 Jimmy Wales - U.S. Co-founder of Wikipedia

Source: http://www.crainerdearlove.com/.
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