Business Thinkers 50_ 2005

Des Dearlove & Stuart Crainer introduce the Thinkers 50 - the 2005
global ranking of business thinkers.

Who is the most influential living management thinker?
That was the simple question that inspired the original Thinkers 50 in 2001.
A lot of hard work and number-crunching later,
the answer became the first global ranking of business gurus.

The Thinkers 50 2005 provides a completely new ranking.
Produced by Suntop Media in association with the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), it is the definitive bi-annual guide to which thinkers and ideas are in - and which have been consigned to business history.
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Ranking Name
1
Michael PORTER (2)
2
Bill GATES (20)
3
CK PRAHALAD (12)
4
Tom PETERS (3)
5
Jack WELCH (8)
6
Jim COLLINS (10)
7
Philip KOTLER (6)
8
Henry MINTZBERG (7)
9
Kjell NORDSTRÖM & Jonas RIDDERSTRÅLE (21)
10
Charles HANDY (5)
11
Richard BRANSON (34)
12
Scott ADAMS (27)
13
Thomas A. STEWART (37)
14
Gary HAMEL (4)
15
Chan KIM & Renée MAUBORGNE (31)
16
Kenichi OHMAE (19)
17
Patrick DIXON (46)
18
Stephen COVEY (16)
19
Rosabeth MOSS KANTER (9)
20
Edward DE BONO (35)
21
Clayton CHRISTENSEN (22)
22
Robert KAPLAN & David NORTON (15)
23
Peter SENGE (14)
24
Ram CHARAN (-)
25
Fons TROMPENAARS (50)
26
Russ ACKOFF (-)
27
Warren BENNIS (13)
28
Chris ARGYRIS (18)
29
Michael DELL (33)
30
Vijay GOVINDARAJAN (-)
31
Malcolm GLADWELL (-)
32
Manfred KETS DE VRIES (43)
33
Rakesh KHURANA (-)
34
Lynda GRATTON (41)
35
Alan GREENSPAN (42)
36
Edgar H SCHEIN (17)
37
Ricardo SEMLER (36)
38
DON PEPPERS (48)
39
Paul KRUGMAN (40)
40
Jeff BEZOS (39)
41
Andy GROVE (26)
42
Daniel GOLEMAN (29)
43
Leif EDVINSSON (-)
44
Jim CHAMPY (25)
45
Rob GOFFEE and Gareth JONES (-)
46
Naomi KLEIN (30)
47
Geert HOFSTEDE (47)
48
Larry BOSSIDY (-)
49
Costas MARKIDES (-)
50
Geoffrey MOORE (38)