The Thinkers 50
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Unsustainable Advantages in an Unpredictable World, Part- 1
Strategist and author Richard D'Aveni discusses Hypercompetition and Commoditization
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CK Prahalad: Can you make profits and will the poor accept new technologies?
CK Prahalad topped the Thinkers 50 in 2007 for the first time. Now, reaffirmed as the world’s leading business thinker, he shared his views on what changed in his latest edition of Bottom of the Pyramid
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The Thinkers 50: A Quick List
The 50 who made it to the list of established world changers
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The Top Management Gurus of Today
The full map of those who made it to the elite group of The Thinkers 50 global listing
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D'Aveni: Commoditization is one of the most virulent forms of hypercompetition
One of the fastest risers in the 2009 ranking, Richard D’Aveni is the author of Beating the Commodity Trap (Harvard Press, 2010). D’Aveni is Professor of Strategic Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His other bestselling books are Hypercompetition and Strategic Supremacy.
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Guru on the Radar: David Bach's Nonmarket Strategy
Identified by the Thinkers 50 as a guru to watch, David Bach is dean of programmes at Spain’s IE Business School. He believes that companies need to give equal weight to how they manage relationships with governments, regulators, non-government organizations, the media and society at large. This is what he calls nonmarket strategy.
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The Most Important Person in the Last 1000 Years Was Gandhi
Howard Gardner on the upper echelons of Thinkers 50 talks about his admiration for M.K. Gandhi
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Henry Mintzberg's Leadership Formulas
Henry Mintzberg, the guru who is known to never mince words, talks about coming full circle with his new book
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Virgin would Never Recruit Branson
Reading Ricardo Semler’s book 'Maverick!' changed the way Henry Stewart managed his IT training business, Happy, and now he is spreading the word
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Integrative Thinking
What links great leaders, Roger Martin says, is "a predisposition to and capacity to hold in their heads two opposing ideas at once.”
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Can you teach Entrepreneurship?
John Mullins, speaks about building GAP, and knowing when to switch from Plan A to Plan B