“ Someone who is depressed over loosing his job projects sadness everywhere in his body – the brain’s output of neurotransmitters becomes depleted, hormone levels drop, the sleep cycle is interrupted, neuropeptide receptors on the outer surface of skin cells become distorted, platelet cells in the blood become stickier and more prone to clump, and even tears contain different chemical traces than tears o joy”.
Fortune in (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0811/gallery.10_new_gurus.fortune/9.html) has listed ’10 new gurus you should know’. Reading the short biography of each of these 10 ‘gurus’ was like reading a scientology material; a collection of new-age healers who are adapt at using age-old remedies with cutting-edge scientific explanations. Indeed, these 10 individuals are attempting some of the fundamental problems of today’s and tomorrow’s business. The following is a brief description of all 10 of them (not in any particular ranking). You can read more by following the above link.
1.BJ Fogg – Thinks that technology will be the great seducer (persuader).He is a researcher but is viewed as a ‘thinker’ in Silicon Valley
2.Patrick Lencioni – The author of the ‘The Five Dysfunctions of a Team’. I have read this guy’s book! I remember the title and a questionnaire that came with it. Pretty good stuff. Now, thanks to Fortune, I will remember his name too. Anyway, Lencioni says that the ‘internal health’ of a company will have a strong bearing on its success or otherwise.
3.Rakesh Khurana – I suppose there needs to be an Indian in the list to replace the great CK….but then I am assuming he is merely from his name. Khurana says that companies will be at peril if they continue searching for ‘charismatic’ leaders as charisma don’t always translate into success. Carly…you can be at ease now. It was not your fault; it was your charisma. Khurana is a fierce critic of the existing business education's form and substance. He is a tenured professor at Harvard!Go figure.
4.Valerie Casey – Undoubtedly the most good looking in the list (and hence has the honour of gracing the top of this blog entry...yes...yes I can be shallow too!).She believes that designers should be governed by a set of rules a la Kyoto Protocol to ensure sustainable design. An icon of green-design movement. Casey, Malaysia needs you desperately in road-transportation design. By the way….you like red wine?
5.Don Sull – A Serious looking dude who is with the London School of Business. His buzz-word is ‘active inertia’ which is a very LBS way of paraphrasing Einstein’s definition of madness.
6.Joel Poldony – I love this guy and I hope he becomes a popular figure here in Malaysia. Because then, I can pursue my DBA. He says that the current education of business leaders are outdated. So, he revamped Yale’s business education curriculum by taking out previously core subjects like finance. I love him already. Poldony is now with Apple; setting up Apple University.
7. Nouriel Roubini – From his picture he looks like Marlon Brando from a distance with a cotton balls in his mouth. He is called ‘Dr. Doom’ because a couple of years ago he predicted that the US will go into a terrible recession for….well…for the very same reasons it is in recession now.
8. Janine Benyus – A biologist who helps organizations innovate by mimicking nature. Need I say more?
9. Dan Ariely – A professor in behavioral economics. The type of guys who teaches organizations on how to make us spend more than we really want to.
10. Nikko Canner – Helps organizations manage change and make strategic shifts without destroying their core strengths.
There goes the list. You are probably wondering what is the relevance of the quote at the beginning of this entry with the list that I have just shared with you. Well, I would like to add one more individual on to the list – Deepak Chopra. Those were his words from ‘Ageless Body, Timeless Mind’. I believe as management (and people) challenges become more complicated and as the search for more holistic solution gains popularity, philosophers and thinkers like Chopra will be able to assist managers and leaders to view their challenges in entirely new perspectives. So Deepak, as far as I am concerned you are on the list and as syncrodestiny goes, you will read this and know that you have a fan in Malaysia!
Enjoy the last days of 2009.
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