55 Management Guru's

Author Carol Kennedy published her fifth edition of 'The Guide to Management Guru's" in January of this year. The book gives an excellent almost academic overview of the most important business minds of today. She listed the guru's alphabetically, which serves her purpose of portraying the playing field, although it is not as much fun as the Accenture management 'power list' :-)
Truth is, it is probably one of the better management books of 2007.

Here follows the list of what she considers the major management guru's of today:

1. Adair John: Action-Centered Leadership: how task, team and individual overlap.
2. Ansoff Igor H: The theory and practice of strategic planning.
3. Argyris Chris: Developing individual potential within the organization: single and double-loop learning.
4. Barnard Chester: Managing the values of the organization.
5. Belbin Meredith: Complementary roles in team-building.
6. Bennis Warren: "Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing."
7. De Bono Edward: Lateral thinking: "the generation of new ideas and the escape from old ones."
8. Burns James McGregor: Leaders who transform and empower their followers.
9. Chandler Alfred D: Structure follows strategy in organizations.
10. Christensen Clayton M: The power of disruptive innovation
11. Deming W. Edwards: The key to quality: reducing variation
12. Drucker Peter: Originator of modern management thinking
13. Fayol Henri: Five foundations stones of modern management
14. Follett Mary Parker: 'Responsibility is the great developer'
15. Gantt Henry: The key tool for managing projects
16. Ghoshal Sumantra: Transnational management and the 'new moral contract'
17. Gilbreth Frank and Lillian: Efficiency through studying time and motion
18. Hamel Gary: Core competencies of business processes
19. Hammer Michael: The radical redesign of business processes
20. Handy Charles: The future of work and organizations
21. Herzberg Frederick: Motivation and job enrichment
22. Hofstede Geert: The causes of cultural diversity
23. Humble John: Management by Objectives as a practical methodology
24. Jaques Elliott: Psychological factors in group behaviour and the 'midlife crisis'
25. Juran Joseph M: Company-wide quality cannot be delegated
26. Kanter Rosabeth Moss: The 'post-entrepreneurial' corporation empowering individuals as a force of change
27. Kaplan Robert S. and Norton David P: The balanced scorecard system of performance measurement
28. de Vries Kets Manfred: Psychoanalysing the organization
29. Kim Chan W. and Mauborgne Reneé: Value innovations and 'blue ocean' strategy
30. Kotler Philip: Marketing as a management science
31. Kotter John P: Leadership and organizational change
32. Levitt Theodore: Understanding the true role of marketing
33. Likert Rensis: How leadership styles link with business performance
34. McGregor Douglas: Theory X and Theory Y: authoritarian vs participative management
35. Maslow Abraham: The 'hierarchy of needs' in motivation
36. May Elton W: Human relations in industry and respect for individuals
37. Mintzberg Henry: How strategy is made and how managers use their time
38. Ohmae Kenichi: Lessons from Japanese global business strategy
39. Pascale Richard T: Continuous renewal in organizations
40. Peters Tom and Waterman Robert H: The 'excellence' cult and prescriptions for managing chaotic change
41. Pfeffer Jeffrey: Key success factors in managing people
42. Porter Michael: Strategies for competitive advantage, both national and international
43. Prahalad C. K: Finding rich markets by serving the world's poor
44. Revans Reg: Managers educating each other through 'action learning'
45. Schein Edgar H: The 'psychological contract' between employer and employee
46. Schonberger Richard J: Each function in a business seen as a 'customer' of the next in the chain
47. Schumacher E. F: 'Small is beautiful': the human scale against corporate 'giantism'
48. Senge Peter M: Systems thinking and the learning organization
49. Sloan Alfred P: Decentralizing big corporations
50. Stephenson Karen: Mapping and managing human networks
51. Taylor F. W: Scientific management and the 'one best way'
52. Toffler Alvin: A world in flux and the rise of the 'prosumer'
53. Trompenaars Fons: Managing cultural differences for business success
54. Weber Max: How individuals respond to authority in organizations
55. Welch Jack: 'Maximizing the intellect of the organization'