May be he is good but due to him the current recession in the USA is prevailing. His short term policies of rate cuts affected so many home owners in USA that almost 1 out of 3 houses has lost its value. And the banks lost $1 Trillion so far. And still no one knows how to fix this issue including the current guy - Bernanke.
Some leaders show that one should live for others, for welfare of all rather than few, for something above money and have love for all... Amazingly, these leaders hold potential to make followers become like themselves....something most of corporate leaders do not practice.
I do not want to press idea of removing someone from the list...but Gandhiji is truly the top management guru. Harsh Purohit, Banasthali University (Missionary task since 1935)
He single handedly is responsible for the current economic problems worldwide, by reducing interest rates post 2001 recession, and encouraging massive debt he made the US banks take too many risks and that is now affecting India so badly, India's growth story has been damaged,
I think they should put him a list of wrong doers.
Best Business Books: 1. The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker 2. The innovators Dilemma - Clayton M Christensen 3. The age of Turbulence - Allan Greenspane 4. The undercover Economist - Tim Harford 5. The Myths of Innovation - Scott Berkun 6. The future of Mangement - Gary Hamel 7. The Black Swan- The impact of the Highly improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 8. The Knowledge creating Company - Ikuyiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi 9. The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt 10. Founders at work - Stories of startups - Jessica Livingstone 11. The Art of War - Sun Tzu 12. Crossing the chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore 13. Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 14. Making things Happen! - Scott Berkun
Re: Best Business Books
by Ludo VandenKerckhove on Aug 08, 2012 09:10 PM Permalink
Another great business book: The New Normal (how curent global tendances will influence business tomorrow), written by Peter Hinssen.
RE:Best Business Books
by Guest on Aug 10, 2008 03:31 PM Permalink
Adding to the list "My rich Dad & Poor Dad", got for the people who dreams for having business
RE:Best Business Books
by A. Swaminathan on Aug 15, 2008 02:06 PM Permalink
15. Built to Last - Jimmy Porras 16. Who Says Elephant Can't Dance - Lance Klusener - IBM 17. Think out of Box - Mike Vance 18. Straight from Guts - Jack Welse.-GE
I do not know of the world but his interest rate cut spree fed the current credit crisis that US Banks have. He totally ignored the perils of too much cheap money supply, did not pay attention to the exotic derivative products, exorbitant leverage done by Banks.(although I am not sure whether only greenspan is to blame but then SEC is a toothless tiger anyway). So he never sneezed but USA does have a financial pneumonia now.
RE:When greenspan sneezed the world caught cold.
by siva on Aug 25, 2008 07:39 PM Permalink
Yes. He is very short sited - and ignorant of the long term effects of his decisions.
How do bill gates and branson figure as management gurus?? They can be called management leaders but not in the same class as theoretical gurus like porter and prahlad... also where do gurus like Amartya Sen figure in this? This is a very inaccurate representation.
