Ram Charan

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1. Ram Charan

   Author of What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works, The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company, Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning

2. Patrick Lencioni

   Author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business, The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

3. Marcus Buckingham

   Author of Now, Discover your Strengths, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

4. James C. Collins

   Author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

5. Clayton M. Christensen

   Author of The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials), The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

6. Peter F. Drucker

   Author of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, The Practice of Management, The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

7. Geoffrey A. Moore

   Author of Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge, Living on the Fault Line : Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet

8. Jack Welch

   Author of Jack: Straight from the Gut, Winning

9. Stephen R. Covey

   Author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

10. Peter Michael Senge

    Author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society, The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations

11. Larry Bossidy

    Author of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right

12. Kerry Patterson

    Author of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

13. Michael Watkins

    Author of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

14. Tom Peters

    Author of In Search of Excellence, Re-imagine!

15. Daniel Goleman

    Author of Working with Emotional Intelligence, Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

16. John P. Kotter

    Author of Leading Change, The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

17. James M. Kouzes

    Author of The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Revised Edition, A Leader's Legacy

18. W. Chan Kim

    Author of Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

19. Guy Kawasaki

    Author of The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit

20. Marshall Goldsmith

    Author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful