Management Gurus
After a month of having the class with the gurus, Professor Wow gave a group activity where the guru’s title or contributions written down and all of us have to identify which owns which.
Here are some few gurus and their contribution to the management table:
John Henry Patterson – Father of Modern Salesmanship
David McLelland – Father of Aspiration Management
Igor Ansoff – Father of Strategic Management
Jack Welch – Mr. Vitality Curve
Kenichi Ohmae – Developer of 3 C’s Model
Juan Lopez Perez – Inventor of Negative Learning
Peter Drucker – Father of Modern Management Theory
Philip Kotler – Leader of Marketing Thought
Bill Gates – Grand Entrepreneur of the PC Revolution
Mary Parker Follet – Mother of Scientific Management
Carlos Ghosn – Mr. Fix It
Michael Porter – Father of Strategic Competitive Management
Frederick Hertzberg – Two-factor Theorist
CK Prahalad – Advocate of Core Competency
David Ogilvy – Father of Advertising
Edward de Bono – Known for Lateral Thinking
Warren Buffet – Wizard of Omaha
Charles Handy – Originator of Shamrock Organization
Albert Humphrey – Mr. SWOT Analysis
Edith Penrose – Theory of the Growth of the Firm
Steve Jobs – Father of the Digital Revolution
Rosabeth Moss Kanter – Researcher on Tokenism
Adrian Slywotzky – Advocate of Value Migration
Alfred Chandler – Father of Business History
John Kotter – Guru of Leadership
Henry Fayol – Father of Administrative Management
Sumantra Ghoshal – Father of Strategic International Management
Henry Mitzberg – Creator of Organigraph
Sam Walton – Father of Modern Retail Management
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How would you reinforce to learn the management theorist? Let the students be them.
That’s how Professor Wow did yesterday. The idea was brilliant. I was thinking “Where did I saw this strategy again?” Because it was like I’ve seen this somewhere. I’m not sure if its in the movies or anime or somewhere I read. You personify. You be in the shoes of the guru. Your wear the glasses of the guru. You contest like the guru.
Mine’s Dr. Kenichi Ohmae, known as Mr. Strategy, labeled as one of the five management gurus in the world by The Economist in 1994. He authored the 3C’s Model–the three factors one must focus for success.
I’m glad the guru assigned to me is a Japanese. This gives me a leverage in understanding the strategies of our Japanese executives. Planning to read The Mind of the Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business.
Other management gurus to meet:
- Edith Penrose – The Theory of the Growth of the Firm
- Mary Parker Follet – Woman pioneer theorist in management theory
- Sumantra Ghoshal – “Springtime Theory”
- Carlos Ghosn – Responsible for Nissan’s turnaround
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter – Business and Change Management; a professor at Harvard Business School
- C.K. Prahalad – core competency and its role on the corporation
- Adrian Slywotzky – business model design and innovation
- Juan Antonio Perez Lopez – motivation theory of work
- Oscar Perrigo – a mechanical engineer, and early technical and management author
- David Mackenzie Ogilvy – The Father of Advertising
- Constantinos Markides – researched on international competitiveness, corporate restructuring, refocusing, and international acquisitions
- Albert Humphrey – devised SWOT analysis, organizational management and cultural change
- Igor Ansoff – The Father of Modern Strategic Thinking
- Henry Fayol – proposed 6 functions of management, and 14 principles of management
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