Where are they now - 90's Thought Leaders in the Millennium Noughties

In the 1980's writers such as Tom Peters led the management thinking revolution - with Alvin Toffler (Future Shock) & Barry Jones (Sleepers, Wake!) seeing a rapidly changing future.

In the 1990's came globalization & the emerging internet. It was the time of the Cluetrain Manifesto and a fascinating time to be in residential management / leadership programs.

I attended three of these in the 5 years from 1996-2001 when I was part of the BHP Organization. Tim Dalmau was one of the key thought leaders in these programs, along with Phill Boas, Malcolm Davies & Ted Fawle. At these we were challenged to think, and to read from a range of thought leaders venerated during the 1990's - see the table below.

We learned of Jung, Johari Windows, Learning Organizations, MBTI, Optimism, Organizational Culture, Resilience, Reflection and building more effective Teams. It was still an era of ideas mostly presented in books & journal articles - before the arrival of blogs, wiki's & social media like Twitter & LinkedIn. But always there was a business focus - a financial benefits focus beyond the personal learning journeys.

Now other thought leaders & mavens have emerged like :

• Richard Florida (Creative Cities), 
• Gautam Ghosh (HR & Social Media), 
• Malcolm Gladwell (Social Media & Change), 
• Seth Godin (Social Media & Change), 
• David Gurteen (Knowledge & Learning), 
• Harold Jarche (Learning Communities & Organizations), 
• Beth Kanter - (Management & Social Media)
• Nick Milton (Knowledge & Learning), 
• Clay Shirky (Social Media & Change), 
• David Snowden (Knowledge, Complexity-Cynefin & Change).

Many of these draw from the thought leaders of the 80's & 90's - of whom Gary Hamel, Tom Peters & Margaret Wheatley now continue to mix it with blogs, tweets etc.

Two of my favourite thought leaders in 2011 are  Rosabeth Moss Kanter, & also  Beth Kanter, who has been pursuing "social media for social good" in working with non-profits : I am so inspired by Beth Kanter's posts - plus big shout-out thanks to Gautham Ghosh to address my glitch of  mixing links for Beth Kanter & Rosabeth Moss Kanter !

	Thought Leaders
	DA Aaker - Brand Activism - more	N Adler	Connirae Andreas - Neuro Linguistic Programming - Core Transformations	Chris Argyris - Double Loop Learning (more) & Organizational Learning	Christopher Bartlett - Managing Across Borders- an interview -  MNC's updated	Gregory Bateson - Systems Theory Epistemology & Anthropology	MP Bean
	R Beckhard - Organization Development& Change - Formula Pioneer	P Berger - Social Structure & Reality	Ken Blanchard	Peter Block - The Empowered Manager - Community, Stewardship & Service	R Boyatsis - Neuroscience - Emotional Intelligence - Learning Styles - Unleashing the Power of Self-Directed Learning	BJ Caldwell	J Campbell
	Fritjof Capra	J Coehn	Stephen Covey	Tim Dalmau	M Davidson	GS Day	Bill Defoore - Anger Management & Emotional Intelligence
	A De Geus - ex Shell - The Living Company	A De Mello	P Drucker	Trompenaar Fons - 7 Dimensional Model of Culture - Building Cross Cultural Competence	R Fritz	P Gagliardi	B Gale
	Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligences - Many Paths to Learning	M Gell-Mann	Sumantra Ghoshal	Thomas Gilmore	James Gleick	Jeffrey Goldstein	L Goldstein
	Daniel Goleman	J Grinder	C Hampden Turner	Gary Hamel	Mike Hammer	Charles Handy	L Harman
	Larry Hischhorn	M Hitt	Geerts Hofstede	Elliott Jacques	Tad James	Joseph Jaworski	DL Kauffman
	Stuart Kauffman	Warren Keegan	Sam Keen	CF Kiefer	H Kelman	Kevin Kelly	Daphne Kingma
	Peter Kline	Sue Knight	JP Kotter	Otto Kroeger	Gideon Kunda	R Lewin	BA Lewis
	E Lorenz	M Louis	C Lundberg	H Maturana	MHB McDonald	Hugh McKay	Ian Mitroff
	Gareth Morgan	Rosabeth Moss Kanter	EC Nevis	John O'Connor	Kenichi Ohmae	M Parker	Loren Pedeson
	J Pennings	JW Pfeiffer	Michael Porter	CK Prahalad	HR Priesmeyer	I Priogogine	Naomi Quenk
	Alfred Rappaport	John Redding	J Renesch	GP Richardson	AK Rice	EH Schein	Ricardo Semmler
	Peter Senge	PJH Shoemaker	D Stace & D Dunphy	Ralph Stacey	G Stalk	Murray Stein	T Thwaites
	Francisco Varela	MM Waldrop	John Warfield	Margaret Wheatley	David Whyte	Ken Wilber	E Young
	GS Yip	Connie Zweig

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A Maven's Magnet Personal Knowledge Management PKM Thoughts - from The Cluetrain Manifesto : "A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies."

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