If you are applying to business school or want to stay on the cutting edge of what’s going on in business, you have to continue to follow the most important and influential business leaders of today. Thinkers 50 is a great website to track some of the most important management thinkers: Click here
Use this list as a reference for books to read and concepts to understand. Essential readings for future consultants include In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters, Good to Great by Jim Collins, and Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter. Future marketers should read anything by Philip Kotter and Seth Godin. Seth Godin’s Unleashing the IdeaVirus is available for download here: Click here
Our very own USC Marshall Distinguished Professor on leadership, Dr. Warren Bennis, is ranked here at 24. He founded the Leadership Institute here at USC Marshall to prepare the next generation of leaders in business and the public sector for a 21st century characterized by greater diversity, technological complexity, social and organizational democracy and global interdependence.
In this business environment you have to continuously stay ahead of your competition.
“One who does not look ahead remains behind.” – Proverb
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