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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology alumnus Marshall Goldsmith has
joined Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Jack Welch among the world’s most
influential management thinkers on the Thinkers 50 2009 list, an
internationally recognized biennial guide published in The Times of
London.
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Marshall Goldsmith |
Goldsmith, an executive coach, was named the 14th on the list after
being considered a world authority in helping successful leaders get
even better –- by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior for
themselves, their people and their teams. He improved from being ranked
34th on the listing in 2007.
Goldsmith’s bestselling book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was a
New York Times best seller, the Wall Street Journal’s No. 1 business
book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Best Business Book of
the Year. It has been translated into 23 languages and is a listed best
seller in six different countries.
Joining Goldsmith on this year’s Thinkers 50 list was CK Prahalad of the
University of Michigan Business School, No. 1 for the second straight
year; Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink
and Outliers, No. 2; Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, No. 3;
Apple founder Steve Jobs, No. 4; Microsoft founder Bill Gates, No. 7;
business management consultant Tom Peters, No. 19; former General
Electric Chairman and CEO Jack Welch, No. 20; management expert/author
Stephen Covey, No. 29; and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas
Friedman, No. 30.
Goldsmith earned a mathematical economics degree from Rose-Hulman in
1970 and then went on to earn an MBA from Indiana University and a Ph.D.
from UCLA.
The Thinkers 50 2009 list was created by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer.
Find out more at www.thinkers50.com.
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