1. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Kanter, who holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, is a leader who guides leaders through teaching, writing, and consulting. with a focus on innovation and leadership for change and sustainable enterprises. Kanter’s book SuperCorp takes information gleaned from interviews with 350 people at key corporations around the world to show that “the businesses that are agile, keeping ahead of the curve in terms of market changes and customer needs, are the businesses that are also progressive, socially responsible human communities.” Online: Blog, HarvardBiz Blog, Facebook, Twitter
2. Lynda Gratton
Gratton is the founder of the Hot Spots Movement, a unique research consultancy that takes academic research and uses that data to come up with business solutions. Online: Website, Blog, Twitter
3. Daniel Burrus
Online: Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube
4. Jeff Haden
Speaker, columnist, and ghostwriter of more than 40 non-fiction books, Haden is an expert in management and leadership, having worked his way up through the ranks to become a respected expert on leadership, management, and small business. Haden is charmingly self-deprecating, saying things like, “[I am a] LinkedIn Influencer (the only time I’ll ever appear on the same list as Richard Branson).” Online: Website, Twitter, Inc. columns, Business Insider columns
5. Rieva Lesonsky
Online: Blog, Twitter, HuffPost columns
6. Anita Campbell
Online: Blog, Twitter, Facebook
7. Barbara Corcoran
Online: Website, Twitter, Facebook
8. Ram Charan
He puts a lot of emphasis on doing what you need to do: “Execution is the job of the business leader…[and it is] is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.” Online: Website, Leadership Outlook blog, Linkedin
9. Tim Ferriss
Online: Blog, Twitter, Facebook
10. Robin Sharma
One of the quotes he attributes to ‘changing his life’ is this one from Ayn Rand: “Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.” Online: Blog, Twitter, YouTube
11. Jim Collins
Online: Articles
12. Tom Peters
Online: Blog, Twitter, Flickr
13. Tony Dungy
Online: Blog, Twitter, Facebook
14. Sydney Finkelstein
Online: Blog, Twitter, Forbes column, BBC column
15. Deepak Chopra
Online: Blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
16. Orrin Woodward
Online: Blog, Twitter, YouTube
17. Simon Sinek
Online: Blog, Twitter, Facebook
18. Nicholas Bate
Online: Blog
19. Margaret Wheatley
Online: Articles
20. Robert B. Cialdini
Cialdini is a widely recognized expert on social psychology and the author of Influence: Science and Practice and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, which are “the result of years of study into the reasons that people comply with requests in business and other settings.” Cialdini’s “Six Principles of Influence,” also known as the “Six Weapons of Influence” have been hugely influential in the fields of leadership and management, helping leaders to understand not only how to lead, but how to make people want to follow. Online: Blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube Featured photo credit: Businessman looking at city through window via shutterstock.com
