There are many management experts or gurus providing thought leadership. In May 2002, the Institute for Strategic Change at Accenture undertook an extensive survey to determine the top 50 business intellectuals.
In January 2003, the Institute for Strategic Change released an updated list , see: Guide to the Gurus - the World's Leading Business Intellectuals.
The web provides a wide range of information and resources about these successful individuals and their business thinking. Their contribution to management theory and practice, and/or, their contribution to the international business world, is acknowledged by their selection. Many of the experts provide excellent guidance in human resources (HR) strategy and organisation development. All hold "guru" status in their field of expertise. Many are authors of management books and other resources.
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1. Michael Porter- Harvard Business School professor and strategy expert. - author of Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors Personal Site Google Name Search
2. Tom Peters- management consultant and author of In Search of Excellence. Personal Site Google Name Search
3. Robert Reich- former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, a social and economic policy professor at Brandeis University, author of several books, including The Future of Success , and Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Personal Site Google Name Search
4. Peter Drucker- business philosopher and consultant for over 50 years. Personal Site Google Name Search
5. Peter Senge- MIT professor and author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Information and Resources (1) Google Name Search
6. Gary S Becker- 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on human capital, and an Economics and Sociology professor at the University of Chicago. Personal Site Google Name Search
7. Gary Hamel- Chairman of consulting firm Strategos, and author of Leading the Revolution. Personal Site Google Name Search
8. Alvin Toffler- author of Future Shock and The Third Wave Personal Site Google Name Search
9. Hal Varian- Dean of the School of Information Management & Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy Personal Site Google Name Search
10. Daniel Goleman- journalist and author of the best seller Emotional Intelligence. Personal Site Google Name Search Swinburne Research (Melbourne, Australia)
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11. Rosabeth Moss Kanter- a professor at Harvard university - former editor of the Harvard Business Review - expert on organizational change. Personal Site Information and Recent Articles Google Name Search
12. Ronald Coase- received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991 for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy. - currently Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. Personal Site Google Name Search13. Lester Thurow- professor of economics and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been the Dean of the Sloan School of Business at MIT. Personal Site Google Name Search
The next group of managment gurus are next. New Additions (see note above). 15. Paul Romer- promoted the "new growth theory" and the "law of increasing returns". Google Name Search
27. Malcolm Gladwell- author of The Tipping Point Google Name Search
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