The Top 15 Business Thinkers: Thinkers 50

Amidst the thousands of management tomes published every year, there are only a few truly influential collections of business wisdom. But measuring the true impact of one of the world's thought leaders can be tricky.

Thinkers 50 believes it has come up with a formula to measure the impact of the world's top business gurus. They've compiled a list of the top 50 thinkers in business based upon, among other things, originality of ideas, practicality, writing style, loyalty of followers and rigor of research.

Based on that analysis, they've come up some very interesting results. C.K. Prahlaad, the author of Fortune At the Bottom Of The Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, was actually deemed more influential than Steve Jobs, Richard Branson or the uber-popular Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell.

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#1 C.K. Prahalad

C.K. Prahalad is an academic based at the University of Michigan and author of, among others, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

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[Green t HOur]

Bob Chapman a true American. He is on the Green T Hour every month. He has the truth about what is really happening in this world of ruin

http://greenthour.com/

[Stock market]

Time 2 get 2 work Obama:

10% unemployment
1.4 trillion deficit
people broke, no more credit, no housing
wealth gap wider than ever

hat tip to: http://tiny.cc/financenews

greed returning to wall street
banks aren;t lending
bad earnings from BAC, Citi & GE
foreclosures at record highs

[anticapitalist1983]

put up a poster in your neighborhood to show your displeasure with the financial crisis: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21140663/wallst

"wall street is at war with america"

it's time to stand up and say enough!

the bankers have gone too far.

[themodernleader]

I am not more than vaguely knowledgeable of most of the movers and shakers of ideology and action on this list. Why? Because their impact has not been for the health and well being of the American Republic. It is a fair statement that not one of them has contributed a dime's worth of ideas or action to the development and growth of the American economy.
Is their one Oriental on the list? If not, the entire list is the result of Western snobbery and hubris. The original economic drivers of the 21st Century are Chinese under the management of the Chinese Government. The Chinese are as clear minded explorers and settlers. They come, pick the best ideas of our thinkers and doers and take them home and apply them with there own best ideas. Later, they will settle scores of hubris and misuse of power.
Such lists are only good as indicators of self-delusion and decline by future historians.

[Kache]

Is there one Oriental? Well, at the TOP of the list is an Indian, C.K. Prahalad. Is that "Oriental" enough for you?

[Suhit Anantula]

One thing. You got the name of Tata wrong. It's "Ratan" and not "Rantan". Cheers

[dukesman2000]

Paul Krugman is still p!ssed Obama didn't select to his team of financial advisors

[leduck]

economists in general shouldn't be on the list. it's not even a real science -- it's a pseudoscience.

[MetalCanuck]

Who put this list together?? Krugman HAHAHA! THis guy thinks you can print money can create wealth..wh­at a joke.

WHere are all the people that said this crisis was going to happen? Guys like Peter Schiff. Ron Paul, Bob Chapman, Max Keiser..I could go on. Now some of these guys are good at what they do and I am not saying they don't deserve to be honored in their own way (except Krugman because of recent activity..­remember Krugman your Keynesian nonsense theory is on the line as well as your nobel because the US government is printing money like you want) but there are a lot of people MSM never gives credit to.

[Lemmy]

Krugman couldn't manage an elementary school book store.

[larry278]

The USA's problem may be too many pundits & gurus in the media have left the USA all gurued up.

[berkamore]

LOL.

Agreed. Like I was told when I was growing up: If you are so good, stop talking and start doing.