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Fons Trompenaars one of the world’s top 50 business thinkers
Professor Fons Trompenaars (Department of Management & Organization Studies) is elected one of the world’s top 50 business thinkers.
About Thinkers50
The definitive global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years. The Jury consists of amongst others Harvard Business Review. The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad. The ranking is based on voting at the Thinkers50 website and input from a team of advisers led by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove. The Thinkers50 has ten established criteria by which thinkers are evaluated - originality of ideas; practicality of ideas; presentation style; written communication; loyalty of followers; business sense; international outlook; rigor of research; impact of ideas and the elusive guru factor.
About Professor Fons Trompenaars
At the VU University Amsterdam (FEWEB) Fons Trompenaars is Professor in Cross-Cultural Management and co-director of the Servant-Leadership Centre for Research and Education (SLCRE). Fons’ passion is in translating values into performance, both the business world and in academia. He turns corporate leaders into top performers through developing their ability to identify and reconcile dilemmas. Outstanding leaders sense the dilemmas facing their industries and their organizations before their competitors and tend to find solutions quickly. The more formidable the dilemma, the greater the gain from resolving it. Together with his colleagues at SLCRE at the VU University Amsterdam and his consultancy firm THTConsulting, Fons directs training, research and consulting services in the areas of sustainability, diversity, cultural awareness, innovation and servant-leadership. Fons’ first book Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business. has sold over 200,000 copies to-date and been translated into over 13 languages including: Japanese, Chinese, Russian, French and German. He is author/co-author of 12 other books including Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Building Cross-Cultural Competence and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century with Charles Hampden-Turner. Recently he published Innovating an a Global Crisis, a dynamic new take on creativity and innovation.
2011 Award winners
Award winners 2011 were amongst others Michael Porter, Lynda Gratton, Robert Kaplan, Stephen Covey, Gary Hamel, Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Henry Mintzberg, Thomas Friedman, Howard Gardner and Ken Robinson.
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