Business Gurus

 

I've learned a great deal about business from these people, who generously share their ideas with anyone who wants to listen. There are many others I've learned from, of course, but these people have been particularly influential. Thank you.

 

Across multiple domains

Seth Godin

Kevin Kelly

 

Economics

Joseph Stiglitz

Michael Spence

George Akerlof

Tim Harford

 

Human Behaviour

Dan Ariely

Barry Schwartz

 

Aggregation

Chris Anderson

 

Pricing

Ronald A. Baker

 

 

New forms of value

Dan Pink

Kevin Roberts

 

Insight

Malcom Gladwell

 

Our place in history

Niall Ferguson

 

Creativity

Hugh Macleod

 

Visual thinking

David Armano

Ellen Lupton

 

Long term thinking

Stewart Brand

Paul Saffo

 

User Experience Design

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Adaptive Path

 

Social media

Clay Shirky

 

Freedom

Lawrence Lessig

Eben Moglen

Jimmy Wales

 

Negotiation

Margaret Neale

 

Storytelling

Jonathan Harris