Malcolm Gladwell has been ranked #2 out of 50 of the 2009 Thinkers' 50: The definitive listing of the world's top 50 most influential living management thinkers. View the full list on the blog link to this article. Watch the video bar on the right-hand side of the blog with the 4 blog videos about this subject and 7 videos from The Thinkers' 50 website about how the list was compiled, what it means to be named to the list and video interviews of other thinkers named to the list.
This list is compiled and published once every two years. In 2007, Malcolm Gladwell was ranked #18. According to their website www.thinkers50.com , The Thinkers' 50 team emailed hundreds of business people, consultants, academics and MBA students throughout the world. After sifting through more than 1,200 votes a list of contenders was compiled.
The result was a short-list of 80 names. A Google search was then undertaken to establish the number of references for each of those on the list, and factored into the ranking. Finally, they were assessed against 10 criteria.
Each guru was marked against the following criteria on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high):
- Originality of Ideas - Are the ideas and examples used by the thinker original?
- Practicality of Ideas - Have the ideas promoted by the thinker been implemented in organizations? And, has the implementation been successful?
- Presentation Style - How proficient is the thinker at presenting his/her ideas orally?
- Written Communication - How proficient is the thinker at presenting his/her ideas in writing?
- Loyalty of Followers - How committed are the thinker's disciples to spreading the message and putting it to work?
- Business Sense - Do they practice what they preach in their own business?
- International Outlook - How international are they in outlook and thinking?
- Rigor of Research - How well researched are their books and presentations?
- Impact of Ideas - Have their ideas had an impact on the way people manage or think about management?
- Guru Factor - The clincher: are they, for better or worse, guru material by your definition and expectation?
Malcolm Gladwell is #2 on the list - journalist, speaker and author of 3 New York Times #1 best-sellers including Outliers: The Story of Success, chartered the routes to success of the worlds most successful people.
Others in the ranking include:
#3 Nobel Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman
#4 Apple chief executive, Steve Jobs
#6 Nobel Prize winner, champion of microcredit and founder of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus
#7 Microsoft founder, Bill Gates
#8 Founder and chief executive of Virgin branded products and services, Richard Branson
#12 Chairman of corporate giant Tata, Ratan Tata
#14 Coach to top chief executives, Marshall Goldsmith
#15 Chief executive of Infosys, S. (Kris) Gopalakrishnan
#19 Co-author of In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters
#20 Former GE chief executive, Jack Welch
#21 Chairman and chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt
#22 Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz
#29 Author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
#38 Current CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt
#40 Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Taleb
#42 Best-selling author and historian, Niall Ferguson
#50 Co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales
See the blog link to an article that shows The Thinkers' 50 full list of the most influential living management thinkers. Read The Thinkers' 50 review of Malcolm's work from a blog link to the article and/or listen to the review on the video podcast that accompanies this blog posting.
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