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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