Words from the Wise One

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Bill Gates

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here’s some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually
have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

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50 Most influential Management Thinkers

Technorati Tags: Thinkers, Business Management, Peter Drucker, Suntop Media, Skillsoft, Harvard, Michael Porter, Seth GODIN, Costas MARKIDES, Rakesh KHURANA, Richard D’AVENI, Peter SENGE, Chris ARGYRIS, Jeffrey PFEFFER, Chris ZOOK, CK PRAHALAD, Bill GATES, Alan GREENSPAN, Michael PORTER, Gary HAME, Chan KIM, Renée MAUBORGNE, Tom PETERS, Jack WELCH, Richard BRANSON, Jim COLLINS, Philip KOTLER, Robert KAPLAN & David NORTON, Kjell NORDSTRÖM, Jonas RIDDERSTRÅLE, Charles HANDY, Stephen COVEY, Henry MINTZBERG Thomas, A. STEWART, Malcolm GLADWELL, Lynda GRATTON, Donald Trump, Scott ADAMS, Ram CHARAN, Vijay GOVINDARAJAN, Warren BENNIS, Clayton CHRISTENSEN, Thomas FRIEDMAN, Kenichi OHMAE, Rosabeth MOSS KANTER, Steve JOBS, John KOTTER, Jeff IMMELT, Rob GOFFEE & Gareth JONES, Adrian SLYWOTSKY, Marshall GOLDSMITH, Bill GEORGE, Larry BOSSIDY, Daniel GOLEMAN, Marcus BUCKINGHAM, Howard GARDNER, Edward DE BONO, Al GORE, David ULRICH

Who is the world’s most influential living management thinker?
That was the simple question that inspired the original Thinkers 50 in
2001. The result was the first ever global ranking of business gurus.
The all-new Thinkers 50 2007 (www.thinkers50.com) is the most
comprehensive and fascinating ranking yet.
Produced by Suntop Media, in association with Skillsoft, it is the
definitive bi-annual guide to which thinkers and ideas are in – and
which are past their corporate sell by date.
So what do the 2007 rankings show? Who are the most influential
management thinkers in an increasingly global business world? And
who, among them, is the number one?
In 2005, Harvard heavyweight Michael Porter inherited the crown
from the late great Peter Drucker. But would he keep his place at the
top in this year’s Thinkers 50? Now we know.
THE GURU AT THE TOP OF THE PYRAMID
The most influential living management guru in the world is CK
Prahalad. Prahalad is the first Indian-born thinker to claim the title.
Best known for his work with Gary Hamel (ranked 5th) on resourcebased
strategy, which gave rise to the term core competences, more
recently, Prahalad has turned his attention to the plight of the world’s
poor. In The Bottom of the Pyramid, his 2004 book, he argues that
capitalism can be the engine to eradicate poverty.

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50 Who have made it

Ranking 123 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

NameCK PRAHALAD (3)Bill GATES (2)Alan GREENSPAN (35) Michael PORTER (1) Gary HAMEL (14) Chan KIM & Renée MAUBORGNE (15) Tom PETERS (4) Jack WELCH (5) Richard BRANSON (11) Jim COLLINS (6) Philip KOTLER (7) Robert KAPLAN & David NORTON (22) Kjell NORDSTRÖM & Jonas RIDDERSTRÅLE (9) Charles HANDY (10) Stephen COVEY (18) Henry MINTZBERG (8) Thomas A. STEWART (13) Malcolm GLADWELL (31) Lynda GRATTON (34) Donald Trump (-) Scott ADAMS (12) Ram CHARAN (24) Vijay GOVINDARAJAN (31) Warren BENNIS (27) Clayton CHRISTENSEN (21) Thomas FRIEDMAN (-) Kenichi OHMAE (16) Rosabeth MOSS KANTER (19) Steve JOBS (-) John KOTTER (-) Jeff IMMELT (-) Rob GOFFEE & Gareth JONES (45) Adrian SLYWOTSKY (-) Marshall GOLDSMITH (-) Bill GEORGE (-) Larry BOSSIDY (48) Daniel GOLEMAN (42) Marcus BUCKINGHAM (-) Howard GARDNER (-) Edward DE BONO (20) Al GORE (-) David ULRICH (-) Seth GODIN (-) Costas MARKIDES (49) Rakesh KHURANA (33) Richard D’AVENI (-) Peter SENGE (23) Chris ARGYRIS (28) Jeffrey PFEFFER (-) Chris ZOOK (-)

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