The Guru Scene 2008
The Wall Street Journal’s Guru Scene 2008 ranks the most influential business thinkers based on media mentions, Google hits, and academic citations. The top ten are
- Gary Hamel - Consultant
- Thomas L. Friedman - NYT columnist
- Bill Gates - Microsoft chairman
- Malcom Gladwell - Author ‘The Tipping Point”
- Howard Gardner - Harvard professor
- Philip Kotler - Northwester professor (tie w/ Reich)
- Robert Reich - Ex-Labor Secretary under Clinton (tie w/ Kotler)
- Daniel Goleman -Psychologist
- Henry Mintzberg - McGill professor
- Stephen R. Covey - Author ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’
See the top 20 which include many non-traditional business experts like journalists and psychologists. But where are all the women?