Leadership and Management Gurus.
Leadership is something essential to any group or organization.
What a leader does is usually very difficult to describe in words. So the
Leaders and Gurus are also important. Some of the most important, eminent,
famous and distinguished Gurus are as follows.
1. Jhon Calvin Maxwell:
John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947) is an author, speaker, and pastor who has written more than 60 books, primarily focusing on
leadership. Most important books
include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader:
Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow.[1] He has been the top
Leadership Guru on the Global Gurus sites for 6 years till now and is always
been voted # 1.
2.
Ken Blanchard:
Ken Blanchard has always been the leadership guru
with a heart, as his message throughout his career reflects how to bring out
the best in people. Blanchard is the
cofounder and Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an
international management training and consulting firm.[2]
3.
John Paul Kotter:
John Paul Kotter (born 1947) is an
American professor currently teaching the High Potentials Leadership Program at the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Leading Change and the co-author
of Our Iceberg is melting.
Kotter is regarded by Harvard Business Review as an authority on leadership and change.[3]
4. Anthony
Robins:
Anthony "Tony" Robbins (born February 29, 1960) is an
American life coach, self-help author and motivational speaker. He became well known
through his infomercials and self-help books, Unlimited
Power and Awaken the Giant Within.
Robbins writes about subjects such as health and energy, overcoming fears,
building wealth, persuasive communication, and enhancing relationships.[4]
He is pioneer in the area of training and leadership development.
5.
Warren
Bennis:
Warren Bennis, born
in 1925 is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author who is
widely regarded as the pioneer of the contemporary field of leadership. He is
the founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at USC. The Financial Times recently named his
classic book Leaders one of the tip 50 books of all the time.[5]
6. Marshal
Goldsmith:
Dr. Marshall
Goldsmith was recently recognized as the #1 leadership thinker in the world at
the bi-annual Thinkers50 ceremony sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. .Marshall Goldsmith is the
million-selling author or editor of 34 books. His books have been translated
into 28 languages and become bestsellers in ten countries.[6]
7. Robin
Sharma:
Robin Sharma is
the globally celebrated author of 11 international bestselling books on
leadership including The Leader Who Had No Title, the phenomenal #1 blockbuster
that is inspiring a movement around the idea that “Now, anyone - in any
organization - can show Leadership”. His work has been published in over 60
countries and in nearly 70 languages, making him one of the most widely read
authors in the world. He shot to fame with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, which
has topped international bestseller lists and sold millions of copies. Robin is
the founder of Sharma Leadership International Inc., a global consultancy that
helps people in organizations Lead without a Title.[7]
8. Jack
Welch:
Jack Welch is one of the world's
most respected and celebrated CEOs, known for his unmatched track record of
success, enormous love of people, fierce passion for winning, and unbridled
desire to change the world for the better using his unique management
practices, which are collectively called The Welch Way.[8] He may be the most talked about and widely emulated
manager in business history.[9]
9. Arthur
Cramazzi:
Ranked as one of
the Global Top 10 most
influential Leadership Gurus by
Gurus International, Arthur F. Carmazzi has 21 years experience specializing in
psychological approaches to leadership and corporate
culture transformation. He is a renowned motivational
leadership keynote speaker and trainer in the Asian Region and
has advanced Corporate Training with innovative techniques and tools that have
been acknowledged by some of the world's greatest organizations.[10]
10. Margaret
Wheatley:
Margaret Wheatley
writes, teaches, and speaks about how we might organize and accomplish our work
in chaotic times. She invites us to attend to the quality of our relationships
to weather the increasing turbulence. She knows that whatever the
problem, community is the answer. Meg has been an organizational
consultant and researcher since 1973 and a dedicated global citizen since her
youth.[11] She co-founded The
Berkana Institute in 1992, a charitable global foundation that works in
partnership with a rich diversity of people around the world who strengthen
their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in
their people, traditions and environment.[12]
11. James
Collins III:
James C. "Jim" Collins, III (born
1958, Boulder, Colorado) is an American business consultant, author, and lecturer on the
subject of company sustainability and growth. Jim Collins frequently
contributes to Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune and other
magazines, journals, etc. He is also the author of several books.[13]
12. Marcus
Buckingham:
Internationally
renowned and celebrated, Marcus Buckingham is the go-to consultant in his
field, a sought-after speaker and a New
York Times best-selling author. Challenging accepted and entrenched
social theory, Buckingham pioneered a revolutionary concept—that people will be
dramatically more effective, successful and fulfilled when they play to their
strongest skills rather than attempting to improve their weaknesses. He calls
his research-based technique the "strengths revolution," and his work
has been proven again and again in boardrooms, seminars and individuals' lives
around the world.[14]
13. John
Baldoni:
John Baldoni,
serves as the chair of the leadership development practice at N2growth. John is
an internationally-recognized leadership educator, executive coach, speaker,
and author. John has authored eleven books on leadership, with three of those
books, Lead With Purpose (2011), Lead Your Boss (2009),
and Lead By Example (2008) being selected as best leadership
books in their respective years. Prior to joining N2growth, John was the
president of Baldoni Consulting, which he operated for 12 years.[15]
14. James
Kouzes:
Jim Kouzes is a
bestselling author, an award-winning speaker and, according to the Wall Street
Journal, one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States.
Jim Kouzes has been thinking about leadership ever since he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts to be selected to serve in John F. Kennedy’s honor guard when Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States.[16]
Jim Kouzes has been thinking about leadership ever since he was one of only a dozen Eagle Scouts to be selected to serve in John F. Kennedy’s honor guard when Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States.[16]
15. Mark
Sanborn:
Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is
president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to
developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international
bestselling author and noted authority on leadership, team building, customer
service and change.[17]
16. Barry
Posner:
Barry Posner is an
eminent scholar and researcher, a bestselling author, and an award-winning
teacher and educator—name one of the Top 50 Leadership Coaches in America.
Barry Posner makes each day matter as an educator, writer, scholar, and coach. [18]
Barry Posner makes each day matter as an educator, writer, scholar, and coach. [18]
17. Tom
Peters:
Tom Peters has been credited with inventing the modern
management guru industry. He is chairman of the Tom Peters Company. In
Search of Excellence, Peter’s best-known book
was published in 1982 and became a publishing phenomenon. Written by Peters and
Bob Waterman, at a time when America's competitiveness was being threatened by
Japan, In
Search of Excellence demonstrated that there
were still many excellent American companies.[19]
18. Noel M Tichy:
Dr. Noel M. Tichy is a Professor of Management &
Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of
Michigan. In the mid 1980s, Dr. Tichy was head of GE’s Leadership Center,
the fabled Crotonville, where he led the transformation to action learning. He
was Manager of Management Education for General Electric where he directed its
worldwide development efforts at Crotonville. Prior to joining the Michigan
faculty, he served for nine years on the Columbia University Business School
faculty.[20]
19. Gary Hamel:
Dr. Gary P. Hamel is
an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategies, an
international management consulting firm based in
Chicago.[21]
20. Howard Gardner:
Howard Earl Gardner (born
July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist who is
the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at
the Harvard Graduate School of
Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard
Project Zero and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages.
Since 1995, he has been the co-director of the Good Work Project. He is best
known for his theory of multiple intelligences,
as outlined in his book Frames of
Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983). He received
the Prince of Asturias Award 2011 in Social
Sciences for the development of this theory.[22]
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