Worlds Top 30 Management Professionals for 2014

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DR. JOHN P. KOTTER  John Kotter has been a Harvard Business School professor for over 30 years and is an internationally renowned author on leadership and change. His 18 books include international bestseller Leading Change and followed by Our Iceberg Is Melting, which puts his 8-step process for change into a fun and easy to read format. In addition to the Leadership Guru Award John Kotter was awarded, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 leadership guru in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises in 2001. After his 30 years of success in teaching, he decided to start a company that would arm leaders to tackle the challenges of changing times, Kotter International helps organizations execute Kotters strategies, and leaves them with the capability to take on future business challenges and react to them quickly with agility and direction. John Kotter received full marks on being unique with his concepts and ideas. His presence on the stage alone commands absolute attention allowing listeners to gather enough information to use in the future. His comeback to the guru list is attributed to the licensing of his Leading Bold Change workshops based on his bestseller Our Iceberg is Melting which is refocusing the international business public to his global contribution. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

Ad by DropinSavings | Close TOM PETERS  A navy personnel turned management professional Tom Peters writes and speaks about a very special area of management i.e. personal and business empowerment and problem solving methodologies. Peter went to Severn School for High School and attendedCornell University receiving a bachelors degree in civil engineering in 1965 and a masters degree in 1966. He later studied business at Stanford Business School receiving an M.B.A. and Ph.D. In 2004 he also received an honorary doctorate from the State University of Management in Moscow. He is called the most provocative and engaging management guru in the USA. He is also called the Red Bull of management thinkers. He is a best selling author of the book In Search of Excellence which became a bestseller and had exposure in the United States at a national level when a series of television specials based on the book and hosted by him appeared on PBS. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

Ad by DropinSavings | Close MICHAEL EUGENE PORTER  Michael Eugene Porter is a Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. After his B.S.E. with high honors in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Princeton University Porter received an M.B.A. with high distinction in 1971 from Harvard Business School. Michael Porter authored 18 books and numerous articles including Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Advantage of Nations and On Competition. Michael Porters core field is competition and company strategy. He is generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field. His ideas are taught in virtually every business schools globally. His work is recognized in many governments corporations and academic circles around the globe. He is a leading authority on company strategy and the competitiveness of nations and regions. He chairs Harvard Business Schools program dedicated for newly appointed CEOs of very large corporations. Recently Porter has paid remarkable attention to health care sector and published a good number of articles. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

Ad by DropinSavings | Close JOSEPH STIGLITZ  Former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a professor at Columbia University, Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is a great economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. His latest book The Price of Inequality hit The New York Times best seller list in 2012. He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization. Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University in the year 2000. He chaired very important positions in institutions like Columbia University, University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Stiglitz has over 40 honorary doctorates and at least eight honorary professorships, as well as an honorary deanship. Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution, asset risk management, corporate governance, and international TRADE. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

Ad by DropinSavings | Close JAMES COLLINS III  Mr. James Collins III is a management philosopher a consultant a teacher and author of several best selling books. He is the author of the books Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Good to Great, How the Mighty Fall And Why Some Companies Never Give In, Great by Choice, Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck and Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Dedicated on his craft of helping companies excel and sustaining their success, Jim started his research and teaching career in the faculty at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992.In 1995 Collins has served as a senior executive at CNN International and also worked with social sector organizations.In 2005 he published a monograph Good to Great and the Social Sectors. His most recent book is Great by Choice Uncertainty Chaos and Luck Why Some Thrive Despite Them All coauthored with Morten Hansen. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

Ad by DropinSavings | Close NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB  Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese American essayist and scholar whose works focus on problems of randomness probability and uncertainty. He was born in Amioun Lebanon to Minerva Ghosn and NajibTaleb a physician, an oncologist and a researcher in anthropology. He is a bestselling author and has been a professor at several universities currently at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Oxford University. His book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II. In his career he has also been a practitioner of mathematical finance a hedge fund manager a derivatives TRADER and is a scientific adviser at Universa Investments and the International Monetary Fund. He criticized the risk management methods used by the finance industry and warned about FINANCIAL crises subsequently making a fortune out of the late 2000s financial crisis. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

GARY HAMEL  Gary Hamel was recently ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the worlds most influential business thinker and by Fortune magazine as the worlds leading expert on business strategy. Hamel authored books like Competing for the Future Leading the Revolution and The Future of Management and What Matters Now. In twenty years Hamel has authored 17 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Reviews history. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal Fortune, The Financial Times and many other leading publications around the world. Currently he is a Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management. As a consultant and management educator Hamel has worked for companies such as General Electric Time Warner Nestle Shell Best Buy Procter Gamble 3M IBM and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts such as strategic intent core competence industry revolution and management innovation have changed the practice of management in companies around the world. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

CHRIS ANDERSON  Born in London and brought up in the USA Chris Anderson is an American author and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and currently the CEO of 3DRobotics, a drone manufacturing company. He worked with The Economist and WIRED magazine. He is known for his 2004 article entitled The Long Tail which he later expanded into the 2006 book The Long Tail Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Anderson enrolled for a degree program in physics from George Washington University and went on to study quantum mechanics and science journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He later did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He began his career as editor at the two scientific journals Nature and Science.He then joined The Economist in 1994 where he remained for seven years. During his The Economist tenure he was stationed in London Hong Kong and New York in various positions ranging from Technology Editor to US Business Editor. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

DANIEL GOLEMAN  Daniel Goleman is an internationally recognized psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses.He currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University. Goleman is a board member of the Mind & Life Institute, which fosters dialogues and research collaborations among contemplative practitioners and scientists. The FINANCIAL Times, Wall Street Journal and Accenture Insititute for Strategic Change have listed Goleman among the most influential business thinkers. He is a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. His book, Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half, with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 40 languages. This book was named one of the 25 �Most Influential Business Management Books� by TIME Magazine. Also he has written books on topics such as self-deception, creativity, transparency, meditation, social and emotional learning, ecoliteracy and the ecological crisis. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN  One of the worlds experts on strategy and innovation Vijay Govindarajan has authored or coauthored seven books including best sellers. He is the Earl C Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and the founding director of the Center for Global Leadership at Dartmouth Colleges Tuck School of Business. Govindarajan has been identified as a leading management thinker by influential publications. He has also published more than 70 articles which has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review California Management Review and MIT Sloan Management Review among others. The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research, Govindarajan was inducted into the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame and ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy and organization. He works with top management teams in Fortune Global 500 firms to discuss challenge and escalate their thinking about strategy. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

HOWARD EARL GARDNER  Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist. He is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and a Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. He authored over twenty books that were translated into thirty languages. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences as presented in his book Frames of Mind The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Howard Gardner has been heavily involved in school reform efforts in the United States since 1980's. Most of Gardners post secondary education has taken place at Harvard University. He is currently a board member at Amherst College and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He served on the board of the Spencer Foundation for 10 years (2001-2011). In his books articles and presentations Howard always shows up with his spirit of psychological development of humans and thereby the improvement of the entire social system. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

MANFRED F.R. KETS DE VRIES  Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries had held professorships at McGill University the ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Montreal and Harvard Business School and has lectured at management institutions around the world. He is the author co author or editor of more than thirty five books and has published over 300 scientific papers as chapters in books and as articles. His books and articles have been translated into thirty one languages. He is the founder of INSEADs Global Leadership Centre the program director of INSEADs top management seminar The Challenge of Leadership Creating Reflective Leaders and the scientific director of the program Consulting and Coaching for Change Executive Masters Program. He has received INSEADs distinguished teacher award five times. Vries is also the founder of the Kets de Vries Institute a partnership that counsels individual CEOs and top executive teams using a clinical orientation to leadership coaching and organizational transformation. He is best known for bringing a different view to the much studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

BARBARA KELLERMAN  Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F.Kennedy School of Government. Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. In 2010 she was given the Wilbur M. McFeeley award by the National Management Association. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. Once she was the Founding Executive Director of the Kennedy Schools Center for Public Leadership. Also from 2003 to 2006 she served as the Centers Research Director. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham Tufts Fairleigh Dickinson George Washington Uppsala and Dartmouth. She also served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Fairleigh Dickinson and as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the University of Maryland. Kellerman speaks to audiences all over the world on various topics of management and leadership. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

RAM CHARAN  Ram Charan is a business adviser, author and speaker with 35 years of experiences. He worked with companies such as GE MeadWestvaco, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, 3M, Verizon, Aditya, Birla Group, TATA Group, GMR, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings and Grupo RBS. Ram is famous for cutting through the complexity of running a business in the fast changing environment of today. He has been praised for his real world solutions shared with millions through his books and articles in top business publications. His ideas have been widely accepted for being practical relevant and highly actionable. Through keen observations he forms powerful insights that help business leaders face their toughest challenges in the areas of growth talent development corporate governance and profitability. He is an energetic interactive speaker who has won several awards such as the Bell Ringer award at GEs famous Crotonville Institute and best teacher award at Northwestern. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

KJELL ANDERS NORDSTROM  Kjell Anders Nordstrom is Europes number one Strategic Management thinker. He is a Swedish economist writer and public speaker. He was first studied engineering and thereafter economics at the Stockholm School of Economics where he earned a Ph.D. Until 2004 he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Business IIB at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research and consulting focus is in the areas of strategic management multinational corporations and globalization. He has served as an adviser/consultant to several large multinational organizations and to the government of the United Kingdom. Webzine Management General rated His book Funky Business Talent Makes Capital Dance as one of the five best business books of the year. Another survey ranked it as the 16th best business book of all time. The book was described as a manifesto of what our time requires from business firms and their leaders and has been translated into 33 languages How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

DR. PHILIP KOTLER  Dr. Philip Kotler is a world famous Management and MARKETING guru and a distinguished professor at the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago. He is hailed by Management Centre Europe as the foremost expert on the strategic practice of MARKETING in the world. Dr. Kotler is known to many as the author of what is widely recognized as the most authoritative textbook on MARKETING Marketing Management. Also he has authored or co authored dozens of leading books on marketing. In addition Dr. Kotler has published more than one hundred articles in leading journals including the Harvard Business Review Sloan management Review Business Horizons California. Dr. Kotler presents seminars on leading management and marketing concepts and developments to companies and organizations in the U.S. Europe and Asia. A seasoned business concept guru Kotler is hired by businesses and organizations from every corner of the world to train up and develop their people so as to prepare them for new challenges. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

LYNDA GRATTON  Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. Founder of the Hot Spots Movement Lynda has written several books and academic articles on organizational behaviour. In 2011 she was ranked by The Times as one of the top 15 Business Thinkers in the world today. She was also ranked number one in Human Resources Magazines Top 25 HR Most Influential UK Thinkers 2011 poll. She continues to work as a consultant with many of the worlds biggest companies including VODAFONE Shell and Unilever. She is a former Chief Psychologist at British Airways and Human Resources Director for PA Consulting Group. She authored Living Strategy Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose which has since been translated into more than 15 languages. She was a Senior Fellow of the UKs Advanced Institute of Management Practice. She is a leading management thinker in the UK. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

NOEL M. TICHY  Dr.Noel M Tichy is an American management consultant author and educator. Dr. Tichy not only extends hi s expertise to business firms and private sectors but also to the academies as well. A dedicated Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Noel is also the Director of Global Business Partnership which ran the Global Leadership Program. He has a great impact in developing senior executives managing skills especially in this age when there are huge threats of globalization for small and rising organizations. His past works include heading GEs Leadership Center and also a working as a professor at Columbia University Business School. Dr. Tichy is the author of good number of books. His most recent book is JUDGMENT How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls. His huge contribution in management arena regarded him as one of the Top 10 Management Gurus by Business Week. He is widely known in the North America. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

RHENALD KASA Rhenald Khasali is an academic and business practitioner who was born in Jakarta. He is a respected professor at the Faculty of Economics Universitas Indonesia and Chairman of the Graduate Management Science Universitys Faculty of Economics. As a professor he holds a Ph. D. from the University of Illinois and is fairly productive in generating writing. Several books have been produced and among them is titled Nine Phenomenon, Business Success, Presentation Change, Recode, Change Your DNA and many more. Rhenald Khasali focuses on development business. He asserts that real luck is when opportunity meets with preparation furthermore Entrepreneurship is not exist by itself but must be created. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

HENRY MINTZBERG  Henry Mintzberg is a professor at McGill University in Montreal for 40 years. He is a consistently contrary Canadian academic who sometimes seems to be undermining the very industry that he works in. He is very critical for managers nowadays and especially in the MBA courses offered in the universities. He has been controversial through his 1975 Harvard Business Review article in which he examined what a number of managers in different industries actually did and found that they were not the robotic paragons of efficiency that they were usually made out to be. He found that the average manager are jumping from topic to topic and they are not good listeners. He said the pressures of his job drive the manager to be superficial in his actions. He termed the MBA as the bread and butter course saying that this course teaches the managers to do nothing. He analyzed and found five types of organizations the simple structure the machine bureaucracy the professional bureaucracy and the divisionalized form. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

TAMMY ERICKSON  Tamara J. Ericksonis a McKinsey Award-winning author, a leading expert on generations in the workplace, and a widely-respected authority on leadership, the changing workforce, collaboration and innovation, and the nature of work in intelligent organizations. She has three-times been named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, the respected ranking of global business thinkers. Erickson is an Executive Fellow, Organisational Behaviour, at London Business School, where she has designed and co-directs the school's premier leadership programme for senior-most executives, Leading Businesses into the Future. She is the Founder and CEO of Tammy Erickson Associates, a research-based firm dedicated to helping clients build intelligent organizations. An experienced executive, Erickson has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 corporations, with experience on the Governance, Audit, and Compensation Committees. She holds a BA degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

CHARLES HANDY  Charles Handy is an Irish author and philosopher specialising in organisationalbehaviour and management. Handy began his career as an employee of Royal Dutch Shell an Anglo Dutch OIL company. He was given assignment of a drilling operation in the jungles of Borneo where he made mistakes and was given a chance to redeem himself. Handys subsequent written work has almost always been a search for ways in which companies can go beyond the pure pursuit of profit. He authored a book The Gods of Management wherein he identified four different management cultures which he likened to four Greek gods Apollo Athena Dionysus and Zeus His vivid use of metaphor and his accessible writing style have made his books extremely popular. Due to his rigorous working life in Britain Handy became the country's leading management spokesperson. Handys main interest was organisations and his message was that they are not machines that can be neatly designed mapped measured and controlled. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

JONAS RIDDERSTRALE  Currently a visiting professor at Ashridge Business School and IE Business School. Dr.Jonas Ridderstrale is a Swedish business speaker thinker and author. He did his graduate and post graduate studies at the Stockholm School of Economics and holds an MBA and a PhD in international business. His doctoral dissertation Global Innovation focuses on product development efforts in multinational corporations. He did research and wrote his thesis at the Institute of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics. He wrote the book Funky Business Talent makes capital dance in 2000 and has been ranked at number 16 in a Bloomsbury Publishing survey of the best business books of all time. The sequels called Karaoke Capitalism Management for mankind and Funky Business Forever How to enjoy capitalism also describe recipes for how to make it in the new world of commerce. All three books were co authored with Kjell A. Nordstrom another management guru. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

COSTAS MARKIDES  Costas Markides who holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at the London Business School is a professor of strategic and international management. A native of Cyprus Markides received a BA and MA in Economics from Boston University MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School. His books include All the Right Moves A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy 2000 and Fast Second How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New MARKETS 2005 with Paul Geroski. Fast Second is a metaphor of a landscape to describe the business world dividing organizations into colonists and consolidators. The former ones are good at exploring new business opportunities but the latter ones are better adapted to commercializing them. Now a days Markides has turned his attention to how management ideas can be used to address social issues such as reducing drug related crime and improving education. Currently he is working on the topic of strategic innovation how companies can break the rules in their existing businesses. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

RAKESH KHURANA  Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. He is also the co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard University. Rakesh received his degrees in organizational behavior from Harvard's Ph.D. program. He is the course head for the first year MBA leadership and organizational behavior course. He worked for three years as a founding team member of Cambridge Technology Partners before starting graduate school in 1994. After finishing his doctorate, Rakesh taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 2000, Rakesh accepted an appointment at the Harvard Business School. His research focuses on managerial labor MARKETS and the processes by which elites are selected and socialized. He is the author of the book, Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs and related academic and managerial articles on the pitfalls of charismatic leadership. Also he has written a number of articles on various management and economic issues. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

GARY BRADT  Who would never recognize the blockbuster book of Spencer Johnson called Who Moved My Cheese An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life? Dr. Gary Bradt was chosen by Dr. Spencer Johnson, the renowned author of the book as a speaker worldwide of the said book. Dr. Bradt earned his BA in psychology from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh PA. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Hahnemann University and Hospital in Philadelphia PA which in 2007 honored him with the Excellence in Professional Psychology award. As a speaker Dr Bradt embraces his audiences with a powerful message authentic stories and some humor to lighten them up. His topic includes Change Management and Leadership. He is uniquely qualified to bring off guidance and strategies on the subject of change in adapting to and leading through change. Dr. Gary Bradt is also the author of the Ring in the Rubble Dig Through Change and Find Your Next Golden Opportunity which has earned many compliments from readers. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

SENAPATHY GOPALAKRISHNAN  Senapathy Gopalakrishnan popularly known as Kris Gopalakrishnan, is the executive vice chairman of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India. Kris is the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry CII National Council and on the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Management IIM Bangalore as well.Formerly he was the chairman of the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore India. Also he is the vice chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education Standards BITES set up by the government of Karnataka. In 1981 Gopalakrishnan along with his six other entrepreneurs co-founded Infosys. On 5 April 2013 he was elected as the president of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry CII for the year 2013 14.As recognition of his business contribution for Indian society the government honored him with Padma Bhushan award. Occasionally he speaks for young entrepreneurs with a view to developing them as management professionals. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

NIALL CAMPBELL DOUGLAS FERGUSON  Primarily a teacher of History, Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson later became a management personality and politician. He graduated in history in 1985 and received his D.Phil from Magdalen College in 1989, with dissertation entitled "Business and Politics in the German Inflation: Hamburg 1914�1924". He is the Laurence A. TischProfessor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2004, Ferguson was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Since 2011, he has been a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek. Ferguson was appointed as an INVESTMENT management consultant by GLG Partners, focusing on geopolitical risk as well as current structural issues in economic behavior relating to investment decisions. He is a great author of the books The Cash Nexus,Colossus and Empire, War of the World, The Ascent of Money, Civilization. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

ERIC EMERSON SCHMIDT  Eric Emerson Schmidt is a software engineer, a politician and a management professional. He is the executive chairman of Google. During his early career, Schmidt co-authored the Lex analysis software program for the Unix computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer of Novell. From 2001 to 2011, he served as the CEO of Google. Schmidt served on the board of directors of APPLE Inc. He also sat on the boards of trustees for both Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University. During the last presidential election Schmidt was a campaign advisor and major donor to Barack Obama. After Obama won, Schmidt became a member of President Obama's transition advisory board. He proposed the easiest way to solve all of the problems of the United States at once, at least in domestic policies, by a stimulus program that rewards renewable energy and, over time, attempts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

DON TAPSCOTT  Don Tapscott is Adjunct Professor of Management at the Joseph L.Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. Tapscott holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics, and a M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology. He also holds three honorary Doctor of Laws granted by the University of Alberta, Trent University, and McMaster University. During his Master's of Education at the University of Alberta, he ran for mayor of Edmonton in the 1977 municipal election. Tapscott has authored or co-authored fourteen books on the application of technology in business and society. His book,Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, co-authored by Anthony D. Williams, was an international bestseller and was translated into 20 languages. His another book The Digital Economy was among the first to show how the internet would change the way we did business. How inspirational is this Guru? Good     Inspirational

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