Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005)

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1. Peter F. Drucker

   Author of Adventures of a Bystander, Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond, Managing in the Next Society

2. Tom Peters

   Author of Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution, Re-imagine!, Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties

3. Stephen R. Covey

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

4. Warren Bennis

   Author of On Becoming a Leader, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization (Collins Business Essentials)

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, Harvard Business Review on Innovation

6. 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, Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

7. Michael E. Porter

   Author of Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Michael E. Porter on Competition

8. 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

9. John P. Kotter

   Author of Leading Change, Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management, Harvard Business Review on Change (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

10. Harvard Business School Press

    Author of Harvard Business Review on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (A Harvard Business Review Paperback), Harvard Business Review on Marketing, Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

11. 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

12. Ken Blanchard

    Author of The One Minute Manager, Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership, Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships

13. Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    Author of Change Masters, When Giants Learn To Dance, World Class : Thriving Locally in the Global Economy

14. Henry Mintzberg

    Author of Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management, Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, Mintzberg on Management

15. James M. Kouzes

    Author of The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition, Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others, The Leadership Challenge Workbook

16. Ram Charan

    Author of What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works, Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning, Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask

17. Noel M. Tichy

    Author of The Leadership Engine, The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win, The Transformational Leader: The Key to Global Competitiveness

18. Max De Pree

    Author of Leadership Is an Art, Leadership Jazz

19. John Kenneth Galbraith

    Author of The New Industrial State, The Culture of Contentment, A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View

20. John Naisbitt

    Author of Megatrends, Megatrends 2000, Re-Inventing the Corporation: Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society