World's 10 top management gurus
Few days back I got this in rediff…
1. C K PRAHALAD
Prahalad is the world's topmost management guru and the first Indian-born thinker to claim the title.
He studied physics at the
Prahalad, is now the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business,
2. BILL GATES
Gates attended public elementary school and the private
In 1973, Gates entered
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
3. ALAN GREENSPAN
Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the
He currently works as a private advisor, making speeches and providing consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.
Greenspan was lauded for his handling of the Black Monday stock market crash that occurred very shortly after he first became chairman, as well as for his stewardship of the Internet-driven, 'dot-com' economic boom of the 1990s.
4. MICHAEL E PORTER
Michael E Porter is the Bishop William Laurence University Professor at the
He studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at
It is said that Porter has always been obsessed by competition. Unfortunately, he slipped from the number one position he held in the 2005 list to the fourth position in the 2007 list.
5. GARY HAMEL
The Wall Street Journal has ranked Gary Hamel as the world's most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him the world's leading expert on business strategy. For the last three years, Hamel has also topped Executive Excellence magazine's annual ranking of the most sought after management speakers.
6. W CHAN KIM & RENEE MAUBORGNE
W Chan Kim is co-founder and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD, France.
Renee Mauborgne is the INSEAD distinguished fellow and a professor of strategy at INSEAD.
7. THOMAS J PETERS
He went to
He then studied business at
According to Peters, excellence in business depends on eight ingredients.
Activism, with people who 'do it, fix it (and) try it'
Excellent companies 'learn from the people they serve'.
They promote entrepreneurship and autonomy
Management learns from a 'hands-on' approach
Workers are valued as the key to achieve productivity
Excellent companies stick to their knitting, exploiting their core competencies and not pursuing wild goose chases
They keep their form simple and their staff lean;
They know how to be simultaneously tight-fitting and expansive.
8. JACK WELCH
Born in
He joined General Electric's plastics division in 1960. At age 33 he became one of the company's youngest general managers and in December 1980, after a little over twenty years in the company, he was named GE's eighth CEO, the youngest in the company's history.
GE's financial success came at the expense of extensive layoffs. During the process of streamlining the company, over 100,000 workers lost their job. His perceived ruthlessness earned him the moniker 'Neutron Jack'.
9. RICHARD BRANSON
Richard Branson was born in 1950 and educated at
In 1970, he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer, and not long after he opened a record shop in
Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s - as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.
Richard Branson is the 236th richest person according to Forbes' 2008 list of billionaires with an estimated net worth of $7.9 billion.
Branson has has dyslexia and thus fared poorly in his studies.
10. JAMES C COLLINS III
He studied business at Stanford.
He began his research and teaching career on the faculty at
In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in
Jim has served as a teacher to senior executives and CEOs at over a hundred corporations.
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