Thinkers50, the premier ranking of global business thinkers, has announced six new members of its Hall of Fame to join Charles Handy, Tom Peters, Philip Kotler and Henry Mintzberg.

“The Hall of Fame acknowledges the thinkers whose work forms the cornerstone of how we understand and practice management and leadership in organisations,” says Thinkers50 co-founder Des Dearlove.

“The six new inductees have all contributed substantial bodies of work which will stand the test of time.” The six new members of the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame are:

• Andrew Kakabadse: Professor at the UK’s Henley Business School, Professor Emeritus at Cranfield School of Management, wide ranging body of work including (most recently) The Success Formula and Leading the Board.
• Ram Charan: Indian-born executive coach and author of 15 books including, most recently, The Attacker’s Advantage. “He has the ability to distil meaningful from meaningless and transfer it to others in a quiet effective way,” says Jack Welch.
• Edward Lawler: Professor at the University of Southern California and prolific author of more than 40 books including Management Reset, Rewarding Excellence and Effective Human Resource Management.
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Harvard Business School professor, political campaigner, author of bestsellers including The Change Masters, Confidence and Men and Women of the Corporation.
• Richard Rumelt: Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School, founding member of the Strategic Management Society and author of the bestselling Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.

Edgar H Schein: MIT professor, created the term ‘career anchors’, author of seminal works Organizational Culture and Leadership and Career Dynamics.

“These thinkers prove the point that there is nothing so practical as a great idea,” says Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer.

“Ed Schein has shaped how we understand careers and corporate culture; Richard Rumelt has explained how strategy really works; Rosabeth Moss Kanter has explored the humanity of organizations in truly innovative ways; Andrew Kakabadse has charted the evolution of leadership and governance; Ed Lawler is one of the founding fathers of our understanding of talent and 2 performance; and Ram Charan has worked with some of the great corporate leaders of our time.”

Thinkers50 scans, ranks and shares the very best in management ideas. Its definitive global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years.

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