Management

The Times of London put out its top 50 management guru list. The most influential living management guru is Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, head of HBS' Strategy and Competitiveness group. According to the Times of London, the Thinkers 50 ranking is based on the votes of 1,200 business people, consultants, academics, MBA students and visitors to the project’s website. See the original Times article here

The Top 50 Business Brains

1 Michael Porter (2)* Harvard strategy specialist
2 Bill Gates (20) Founder of Microsoft
3 C. K. Prahalad (12) LBS strategy man
4 Tom Peters (3) Leadership consultant
5 Jack Welch (8) GE’s ex-CEO and celebrity
6 Jim Collins (10) Author of Good to Great
7 Philip Kotler (6) Kellogg’s marketing guru
8 Henry Mintzberg (7) Promotes Managers not MBAs
9 Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale (21) Funky Business exponents
10 Charles Handy (5) British portfolio worker
11 Richard Branson (34) Entrepreneur and Virgin flyer
12 Scott Adams (27) creator of Dilbert 
13 Thomas Stewart (37) Intellectual Capital author
14 Gary Hamel (4) Strategy consultant
15 Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne (31) Blue Ocean Strategy duo
16 Kenichi Ohmae (19) Japanese strategy master
17 Patrick Dixon (46) Futurist and change guru
18 Stephen Covey (16) Knows The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
19 Rosabeth Moss Kanter (9) Harvard’s change manager
20 Edward De Bono (35) Lateral thinker and author
21 Clayton Christensen (22) Harvard’s new-tech guru
22 Robert Kaplan & David Norton (15) Balanced scorecard creators
23 Peter Senge (14) Learning organisation inventor
24 Ram Charan (-) Coach to the CEOs
25 Fons Trompenaars (50) Intercultural management man
26 Russ Ackoff (-) Specialist of systems thinking
27 Warren Bennis (13) Humanist leadership guru
28 Chris Argyris (18) Action and learning guru
29 Michael Dell (33) Dell Computer’s founder
30 Vijay Govindarajan (-) Tuck’s strategy innovator
31 Malcolm Gladwell (-) Blink and Tipping Point guru
32 Manfred Kets De Vries (43) Psychoanalytic economist
33 Rakesh Khurana (-) Harvard labour market guru
34 Lynda Gratton (41) LBS people and strategy guru
35 Alan Greenspan (42) Head of US Federal Reserve
36 Edgar Schein (17) MIT organisational psychologist
37 Ricardo Semler (36) Radical CEO of Semco
38 Don Peppers (48) Customer relationship man
39 Paul Krugman (40) Economist and columnist
40 Jeff Bezos (39) Amazon’s main man
41 Andy Grove (26) One of the Intel founders
42 Daniel Goleman (29) Emotional intelligence inventor
43 Leif Edvinsson (-) Professor of intellectual capital
44 James Champy (25) Advocate of re-engineering
45 Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones (-) Authentic leaders
46 Naomi Klein (30) No Logo author
47 Geert Hofstede (47) Cultural expert
48 Larry Bossidy (-) Chair of Honeywell
49 Costas Markides (-) LBS strategy professor
50 Geoffrey Moore (38) Hi-tech marketing man

Comments

[Gautam Ghosh]

Congratulations for coming in at number 33 !! It must be a great honor !

Here are my posts on the list:

http://gauteg.blogspot.com/2005/12/biggest-gurus-of-management_02.html

http://gauteg.blogspot.com/2005/12/where-are-specialists.html

warm regards
Gautam

[Atul Kumar]

Rakesh, this news really made my day. To see someone in the list whom I know in ways other than via media is really great. It was a very special moment especially since almost all my favorites from Global Indian diaspora have made it there.

Prof. Prahlad is my alum, Ram Charan is someone who recently conducted sessions for my business & you are someone whom i am hopeful of catching in person whenever you come this side next time.

Wish you all the best & success. Will be keen to follow your ascent to the very top

[Makarand Gulawani]

Congratulations!
Two years ago, I attended annual conference of Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) in Goa. There, someone said, 'you are going to be the next guru'. Now, I see you there. Appreciate it.
Wish you best for 2006.

[Anand Desai]

Sir,
I ask for your apology when I write the following lines to you for I believe that the rankings given above are a little narrow at focus.It goes unsayingly that all the names titled above belong to one or the other cadre of Business Tycoons. But then generalising and assigning them the tag "TOP 50 BUSINESS BRAINs" would actually be unjust for those who have actually been a part of their team.To support this, I must say even when a single person steps into the field of entreprenuership, there are many minds behind his success.That one individual having highest share in terms of investment in that case merely becomes a part and ambassador for what the strategies have been.Its never just one brain that runs the whole business.I have believed that when a business proliferates/ceases praises/blames have not be headed by one but must also be shared by CONSUMER/CLIENT brains for when it comes to them, its their BRAINS which actually start making difference to their own and others business.So what i feel is that,if the category has to for TOP 50 BRAINS it must be modified to TOP 51 BRAINS ,first being A LAYMAN WHO AT EACH MOMENT THINKS OF SOME OR THE OTHER BUSINESS IN ONE ASPECT OR THE OTHER FOR HIS BETTER MENT.And as far as my knowledge takes me even the best evolves from very normal that once existed.Hence in my opinion the title would better have been TOP 50 AMBASSADORS OF BUSINESS BRAINS AT WORK.
Thanks,
Anand

[Term Papers]

I really admire this, I mean it really looks interesting! I'm actually glad to see all this stuff...

[records management]

It's good to see so many smart and talented people on the list. A proper management is probably the most crucial element in a developing business, along side with good communication and organization.