Earlier this month, we blogged about Marshall Goldsmith (PhD '77) and Professor Richard Rumelt, Anderson's Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society, both being named to Thinkers50's list of the world's best business thinkers. Goldsmith was ranked seventh, Rumelt twentieth.
Now, we happily update this news with the word that Goldsmith was also named the winner of the 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award (sponsored by Harvard Business Review) as the World's Most-Influential Leadership Thinker.
From the press release:
Over the past decade, the prestigious, bi-annual Thinkers50 ranking (now sponsored by the Harvard Business Review) has served the global business community by showcasing the top business thinkers on the planet. This week in London, internationally acclaimed executive educator, coach and author, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, was named winner of the 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award – as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker. Along with being recognized as the #1 Leadership Thinker, Marshall was ranked #7 on the list of the world’s Top 50 Business Thinkers.
"Marshall Goldsmith is singularly persuasive, networked, and energetic. In the crowded leadership sphere, he is fixed on changing the practice of leaders for the better rather than the neatness of his theories," says Thinkers50 co-founder Stuart Crainer.
Goldsmith, a world authority on helping successful leaders get even better, is the million-selling author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management (where he was recognized in 2010 as one of the school’s 100 distinguished graduates) and teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School.
Earlier this year, Goldsmith was also named to the list of UCLA Anderson's 100 Inspirational Alumni.
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