Giant global management consulting company Accenture has compiled a list of the Top 50 Business Gurus — you know, those A-list authors, entrepreneurs, and other experts who spend their lives dishing out wisdom on the lecture circuit. The “clout rating” was based on a heavyweight’s number of
Google hits, citations by academics, and mentions in the Lexis-Nexis database. If you’ve ever wondered who determines the intellectual fashions of corporate
America, meet the alpha brains behind the curtain.
— Chris Tucker
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1 Michael E. Porter:
Harvard Business School professor and prolific writer on strategy topics
2 Tom Peters: Author of In Search of Excellence and The Pursuit of Wow!
3 Robert B. Reich: Former Clinton adminis-tration U.S. Secretary of
Labor, Brandeis professor, and author of The Work of Nations
4 Peter F. Drucker: “Godfather” of business-management thinking. Author of Post-Capitalist Society, The Effective Executive, and many others
5 Gary S. Becker: Nobel laureate economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
6 Peter M. Senge: Organizational learning expert and author of The Fifth Discipline
7 Gary Hamel: Leading thinker on strategy and innovation, he coauthored Competing for the Future
8 Alvin Toffler: Futurist who wrote Future shock and The Third Wave and advised former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
9 Hal R. Varian:
Berkeley professor of business and economics who writes influential columns for
The New York Times 10 Daniel Goleman: Wrote Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership