Interviews

For over 20 years, Thinkers50 has been identifying, ranking, and sharing the very best in management thinking.

Kjell Nordström Interview

2011 Ranking: #36 Kjell Nordström is a strking figure. Even in a fashionable Stockholm restaurant where he is well known heads turn on his entry. Tall, shaven-headed, dressed in black

Robert Kaplan and David Norton

Robert Kaplan & David Norton Interview

2011 Ranking: #14 Keeping score The dilemma of what to measure is as old as business itself. From Frederick Taylor’s scientific management at the turn of the twentieth century to

John Kotter Interview

2011 Ranking: #34 While some of his Harvard Business School colleagues are prolific contributors to the Harvard Business Review, John Kotter has written only six articles. At first sight, it seems

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith Interview

2011 Ranking: #7 Recipient: 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award Executive coaching is a huge growth market. With senior managers under increasing pressure from investors, analysts and a host of others, and

Tammy Erickson Interview

Managing the generation gap 2011 Ranking: #33 Tammy Erickson is an author and expert on organizations and the changing workforce and, in particular, the generational differences between workers today. She

Jim Collins

Jim Collins Interview

2011 Ranking: #4 Jim Collins, ranked #6 in the Thinkers 50 2005 ranking of management gurus, is best known for his highly influential books Built To Last: Successful Habits of

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan Interview

The dawn of reverse innovation 2011 Ranking: #3 Recipient: 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of

Costas Markides Interview

Innovating globally 2011 Ranking: #31 Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award Costas Markides of London Business School has spent over two decades studying business strategy and innovation. Recently, he has been

W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne

W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne Interview

Walking through Barbizon, the northern French village des peintres, home of the 19th-century artist Jean-François Millet, Professor W. Chan Kim makes an expansive gesture: “This place is a creative hub,” he says, smiling broadly, as he watches another pack of tourists disgorging from a bus.

henry mintzberg

Henry Mintzberg Interview

2011 Ranking: #30 Shortlisted: 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award Henry Mintzberg was once labelled the enfant terrible of management thinking. His 1973 book, The Nature of Managerial Work, challenged the managerial

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