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For 25 years, Leadership Excellence magazine has published the best and latest thinking on leadership. Again this year, the magazine has ranked the top thought leaders in management and leadership.

The gurus who make our Excellence 100 list today possess a rare combination of traits and abilities. Here are the eight criteria:
  1. Preparation: academic and professional.
  2. Character: values, ethics, beliefs, purpose, mission, integrity, walk the talk.
  3. Principles: big message, point of view, tenets, main points.
  4. Personality: charisma, style, originality, authenticity, one of a kind.
  5. Performance: inspiring action, real-world performance, work ethic.
  6. Experience: beyond local and regional, more national and international.
  7. Expression: substance and style in writing, speaking, coaching, consulting, mentoring, training, or teaching.
  8. Influence: difference, results, change, transformation.
The 2010 - 2011 Excellence 100
Top 20
21-40
  1. James Loehr
  2. Norm Smallwood
  3. Michael Porter
  4. Max Bazerman
  5. Jay Conger
  6. Rosabeth Kanter
  7. C.K. Prahalad
  8. Ichak Adizes
  9. Kevin & Jackie Freiberg
  10. Chip Bell
  11. Carly Fiorina
  12. Gifford Pinchot
  13. Bill Isaacs
  14. James Champy
  15. Morgan McCall, Jr.
  16. Jack Welch
  17. Nicholas Negraponte
  18. Jay Conrad Levinson
  19. Michael Treacy
  20. Dan Goleman
41-60
  1. Frances Hesselbein
  2. Judith Glaser
  3. Renee Mauborgne
  4. Ken Blanchard
  5. Steven Berglas
  6. Eileen McDargh
  7. Beverly Kaye
  8. Nathaniel Branden
  9. Barry Conchie
  10. Patrick Lencioni
  11. David Allen
  12. Phil Geldart
  13. Josh Bersin
  14. David Nadler
  15. Libby Sartain
  16. Nigel Nicholson
  17. Bill Byham
  18. Jon Katzenbach
  19. Edward E. Lawler III
  20. Robert Whipple
61-80
  1. Joseph Grenny
  2. Michael G. Winston
  3. Christopher Rice
  4. Richard Chang
  5. Andre Martin
  6. Joel Barker
  7. Malcolm Gladwell
  8. Stephen R. Covey
  9. Gregg Thompson
  10. Ira Chaleff
  11. Lois Zachary
  12. Edgar Schein
  13. Barry Posner
  14. Dianna Booher
  15. Sheila Bethel
  16. Larry Senn
  17. Jeff Sonnenfeld
  18. Larry Bossidy
  19. Vijay Govindarajan
  20. Vijay Govindarajan
81-100
  1. Larry Spears
  2. Lance Secretan
  3. Richard Wellins
  4. Bill Adams
  5. Maya Hu-Chan
  6. James Cabrera
  7. Rob Lebow
  8. Ron Crossland
  9. Steven Arneson
  10. Terry Bacon
  11. Robert Kaplan
  12. Phil Harkins
  13. Ian Mitroff
  14. Joseph Jaworski
  15. Deborah Ancona
  16. Howard Guttman
  17. Richard Leider
  18. Gary Harpst
  19. Chris Majer
  20. Daniel R. Tobin

    —Ken Shelton