After all the turbulence, South Africa’s news flow must be getting back to normality. Yesterday it registered that I’d missed the announcement of one of the few awards worth following,
In November every second year since 2001, London-based Thinkers50 ranks the world’s foremost business management minds. The father of disruption, Clayton Christensen, topped the table in 2011 and again in 2013. When I interviewed him late last year, he was sceptical in becoming the first person to ever win it three times, feeling that he hadn’t produced enough new work to warrant it. He was right.
Author of The Innovator’s Dilemma was nudged into second spot by fellow Harvard Professor and competitiveness expert Michael Porter who also won the award in 2005. Porter closes out an unusual quartet – one of only four winners in the 16 years.
Apart from Porter and Christensen, the other two time winners are Peter Drucker (2001 and 2003) and CK Prahalad (2007 and 2009). Narrows the choice when you’re confronted with one of those 10 000 business books published every year.
From Biznews community member Brent Burgoyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbMfg5ihEQ&feature=youtu.be
