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When it first appeared in 2001, the Thinkers 50, the first ever global ranking of business thinkers, provoked debate, disappointment and delight in equal measure. http://www.thinkers50.com/ includes (ranked) Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Tom Peters, Gary Hamel, Charles Handy, Philip Kotler, Henry Mintzberg, Jack Welch, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jim Collins, Sumantra Ghoshal, C K Prahalad, WarrenBennis, Peter Senge, Robert Kaplan, David Norton, Stephen Covey, Edgar Schein, ChrisArgyris, Kenichi Ohmae, Bill Gates, Kjell Nordstrom, Jonas Ridderstrale, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Nicholas Negroponte, Jim Champy, Andy Grove, Scott Adams, Richard Pascale, Daniel Goleman, Naomi Klein, Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Don Tapscott, Michael Dell, Richard Branson, Edward De Bono, Ricardo Semler, Thomas Stewart, Geoffrey Moore, Jeff Bezos, Paul Krugman, Lynda Gratton, Alan Greenspan, ManfredKetsDeVries, Robert Waterman, Watts Wacker, Patrick Dixon, Geert Hofstede, Don Peppers, StanDavis, FonsTrompenaars

The 1998 Guru Guide http://www.jboyett.com/guru.htm includes (unranked) Karl Albrecht, Sumantra Ghoshal, David Norton, ChristopherArgyris, Thomas Gilbert, James O Toole, Ken Bamforth, Robert Greenleaf, Glenn Parker, Christopher Bartlett, Gary Hamel, William Pasmore, WarrenBennis, Michael Hammer, Tom Peters, Warren Blank, Charles Handy, Paul Platten, Lee Bolman, David Hofrichter, Michael Porter, JuanaBordas, WilliamIsaacs, C K Prahalad, Adam Brandenburger, LaurieBethJones, Edgar Schein, Jill Carpenter, Patricia Kane, PeterScholtes, John Case, Robert Kaplan, Donald Schon, James Champy, Jon Katzenbach, Jay Schuster, Jay Conger, ManfredKetsDeVries, John Schuster, Daryl Connor, Daniel Kim, Peter Senge, Stephen Covey, John Kotter, HenrySims, AubreyDaniels, Edward Lawler, Douglas Smith, Terrence Deal, Charles Manz, Jack Stack, Max De Pree, Henry Mintzberg, Paul Strebel, Peter Drucker, Allan Mohrman, Noel Tichy, Fred Emery, Susan Mohrman, Michael Treacy, Richard Farson, James Moore, Eric Trist, Thomas Flannery, Linda Moran, Marvin Weisbord, Jay Forrester, Ed Musselwhite, Etienne Wenger, Timothy Galpin, Barry Nalebuff, Margaret Wheatley, Howard Gardner, BurtNanus, Fred Wiersema, John Gardner, John Zenger, Patricia Zingheim

Accenture Jan'2003 article includes (ranked) Michael Porter, Tom Peters, Robert Reich, Peter Drucker, Gary Becker, Peter Senge, Gary Hamel, Alvin Toffler, Hal Varian, Daniel Goleman, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ronald Coase, Lester Thurow, Charles Handy, Paul Romer, Henry Mintzberg, Stephen Covey, Michael Hammer, Bill Gates, WarrenBennis, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Philip Kotler, Robert Merton, C K Prahalad, Thomas Davenport, Don Tapscott, Malcolm Gladwell, John Seely Brown, George Gilder, Kevin Kelly, ChrisArgyris, Esther Dyson, Robert Kaplan, Edward De Bono, Jack Welch, John Kotter, Ken Blanchard, Edward Tufte, Kenichi Ohmae, JamesMacGregorBurns, Alfred Chandler, Edgar Schein, Sumantra Ghoshal, MyronScholes, Richard Branson, AnthonyRobbins, Michael Dell, James March, Clayton Christensen, John Naisbitt