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Lynda GrattonPsychologist, with a unique focus on organizational change, and the movement of business from a competitive to a more collaborative work space.
01. ranked thinker
Ranked #29 in 2017.
Previous positions: #31 (2015), #14 (2013), and #12 (2011).
02. SHORTLISTED
Thinkers50 2013 Global Solutions Award.
03. FAST FACT
Started career as chief psychologist at British Airways.
ideas
Gratton explores the changing patterns of work and their effects worldwide, and provides unique insights into the movement of business from a competitive to a more collaborative work space. She studies technological and societal trends that will shape the future of work and living, and maps out how to bring resilience to a fragile world, starting with what happens inside an organization. She explains how a corporation’s unique capabilities of innovation, scaling, mobilising, and alliance-building can help solve global problems.
Nationality
British
BIO
Gratton is professor of management practice at London Business School, where she directs ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies’ – considered the world’s leading programme on human resources. Founder of the Hot Spots Movement she is also leader of the Future of Work Research Consortium, a platform designed to help businesses identify and respond to trends in order to remain dynamic, innovative and competitive. Gratton is a fellow of the World Economic Forum and chairs the Drucker Prize panel. In 2017 Gratton was the only foreigner invited by prime minister Abe of Japan to join a new advisory council “for designing the 100-year-life society”.
Content
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity (with Andrew Scott, Bloomsbury, 2016); The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World’s Toughest Problems (McGraw-Hill, 2014); The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here (Collins, 2011); Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation, and Success (Berrett-Koehler, 2009); Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy – And Others Don’t (Berrett-Koehler, 2007); Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose (FT Prentice Hall, 2000); Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality (Oxford University Press, 1999).
website
lyndagratton.com
@lyndagratton
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VERDICT
“The 100-Year Life has profound implications for work, life and society.“
Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50