Top 50 Business Thinkers

Extracted 16NOV2011 from http://www.thinkers50.com/awards/2011

     2011 Ranking -- Name -- (2009 Rank) -- Special Recognition

1.     Clayton Christensen (28) -- Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Innovation Award
2.     W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne (5) -- Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award
3.     Vijay Govindarajan (24) -- Winner: 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award [curator's favorite]
4.     Jim Collins (17)
5.     Michael Porter (11) -- Winner: 2005 Thinkers50
6.     Roger Martin (32)
7.     Marshall Goldsmith (14) -- Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award
8.     Marcus Buckingham (25)
9.     Don Tapscott (39)
10.     Malcolm Gladwell (2)
11.     Sylvia Ann Hewlett (-) [curator's favorite]
12.     Lynda Gratton (18)
13.     Nitin Nohria (-)
14.     Robert Kaplan & David Norton (37)
15.     Gary Hamel (10)
16.     Linda Hill (-)
17.     Seth Godin (-)
18.     Teresa Amabile (-) [curator's favorite]
19.     Rita McGrath (-)
20.     Richard Rumelt (-)
21.     Richard D'Aveni (26)
22.     Jeffrey Pfeffer (-)
23.     David Ulrich (31)
24.     Tom Peters (19)
25.     Rosabeth Moss Kanter (27)
26.     Nirmalya Kumar (-) -- Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Global Village Award
27.     Pankaj Ghemawat (-) -- Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Book Award [curator's favorite]
28.     Herminia Ibarra (-)
29.     Daniel Pink (-)
30.     Henry Mintzberg (33)
31.     Costas Markides (47)
32.     Thomas Friedman (30)
33.     Tammy Erickson (46)
34.     John Kotter (41)
35.     Amy Edmondson (-)
36.     Kjell Nordström & Jonas Ridderstråle (23)
37.     Howard Gardner (16)
38.     Henry Chesbrough (-)
39.     Daniel Goleman (34)
40.     Vineet Nayar (-)
41.     Rakesh Khurana (44)
42.     Fons Trompenaars (-)
43.     Ken Robinson (-)
44.     Andrew Kakabadse (-)
45.     Stewart Friedman (-)
46.     Adrian Slywotzky (-)
47.     Stephen Covey (29)
48.     Sheena Iyengar (-)
49.     Umair Haque (-)
50.     Subir Chowdhury (-)

    * congratulations Melinda (for publishing the authors in red)