Business guru

[3] However, there are some people who have been accepted by a great majority as a business guru and also some organizations which have created their own lists of gurus.

A Russian tradition commemorates Lavrentiy Beria (executed in 1953 despite having run the massive Gulag organisation and the Soviet atomic bomb project) as the "best manager of the 20th century.

[8] The Japanese were known for making improvements to the business world and producing gurus in the 1980s, including Keniche Ohmae and Akio Morita.

Then European gurus emerged, such as Yves Doz, Geert Hofstede, Manfred Kets De Vries and Charles Handy.

[3] One management expert, Gary Hamel, says there have been "few genuine breakthroughs" since the work of Taylor and Max Weber.

C. K. Prahalad (1941–2010), originator of the core competency concept, ranked first among influential modern business gurus on Stuart Crainer 's and Des Dearlove 's biennial Thinkers50 list, in 2009. [ 1 ]