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Irish management theorist and philosopher who has written elegantly on organizational change, the nature of work, and the future of capitalism.
Austrian-American management consultant and author who wrote 39 books and invented modern management as a discipline — creating concepts like management by objectives, the knowledge worker, decentralization, and the purpose of business as creating a customer — considered the most influential management thinker of the 20th century.
American physicist and biotech entrepreneur who wrote Loonshots — arguing that organizations naturally suppress radical innovation ('loonshots') the same way water freezes, and that the key leadership skill is managing the phase transition between the 'artists' (innovators) who pursue loonshots and the 'soldiers' (operators) who run the core business.