Top 100 Management Theorists

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Management by Objectives, knowledge worker, Theory of the Business

Psychological Safety, Teaming, the Fearless Organization

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Evidence-Based Management, Power, human-capital strategy

Organizational Culture (3 levels), Process Consultation

Double-Loop Learning, defensive routines, Ladder of Inference

Reflective Practitioner (with Argyris)

Douglas McGregor

Theory X / Theory Y

Frederick Herzberg

Two-Factor Theory (motivators vs hygiene)

Hierarchy of Needs, Eupsychian management

Mary Parker Follett

Constructive conflict, power-with vs power-over

Chester Barnard

Functions of the Executive, cooperative systems

14 Principles of Management, POSDCORB foundations

Bureaucracy, rational-legal authority

Frederick Taylor

Scientific Management

Hawthorne Studies, human relations

Change Model (Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze), Force-Field Analysis

Organization Development foundations

Leadership theory, "becoming a leader"

8-Step Change Model, Leading Change

James MacGregor Burns

Transformational vs Transactional Leadership

Transformational Leadership scale (MLQ)

Robert Greenleaf

Servant Leadership

Authentic Leadership

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership (with Heifetz)

Competing Values Framework, Deep Change

Competing Values Framework, Positive Organizational Scholarship

Jay Galbraith — Star Model of org design

SECI model, knowledge creation, tacit/explicit

Hirotaka Takeuchi

Knowledge-creating company (with Nonaka)

Sensemaking, loose coupling, high-reliability orgs

Organizational learning, decision-making (cross-listed)

Behavioral Theory of the Firm (with March)

Administrative Behavior, bounded rationality (cross-listed)

Philip Selznick

Institutional leadership, distinctive competence

W. Richard Scott

Institutional Theory, three pillars

Institutional isomorphism (with Powell)

Institutional isomorphism, network forms

Jeffrey Pfeffer (RDT)

Resource Dependence Theory (with Salancik) — distinct strand

Gerald Salancik

Resource Dependence Theory

Organizational Ecology

Organizational Ecology (with Hannan)

Henry Mintzberg (Org Configs)

Simple, Machine, Professional, Divisional, Adhocracy (second arc)

Evidence-based management, No Asshole Rule, scaling excellence

Scaling Up Excellence (with Sutton)

Boris Groysberg

Talent and portability of star performers

Becoming a Manager, Collective Genius (innovation leadership)

Herminia Ibarra

Working Identity, Act Like a Leader

Future of Work, Hot Spots, 100-Year Life

100-Year Life (with Gratton)

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Change Masters, Men and Women of the Corporation

Trust triangle, leadership and unleashing

Move Fast and Fix Things (with Frei)

Emotional Intelligence in leadership

Insight, self-awareness research

Componential Theory of Creativity, Progress Principle

Progress Principle (with Amabile)

Richard Hackman

Job Characteristics Model, team effectiveness

Job Characteristics Model (with Hackman)

Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Marcus Buckingham

Strengths-based management, First Break All the Rules

StrengthsFinder / CliftonStrengths

Frederic Laloux

Reinventing Organizations, Teal organizations

Brian Robertson

Semco Style, radical workplace democracy

Gary Hamel (Mgmt 2.0)

Future of Management, humanocracy (second arc)

Humanocracy (with Hamel)

Stanley McChrystal

L. David Marquet

Intent-Based Leadership, Turn the Ship Around

Multipliers / Diminishers

Creativity Inc., Pixar's brain trust model

Netflix culture deck, freedom and responsibility

Culture Map, cross-cultural management

Cultural Dimensions

Fons Trompenaars

Seven Dimensions of Culture

Gods of Management, Sigmoid Curve, Shamrock Organization

In Search of Excellence, McKinsey 7S

Robert Waterman

In Search of Excellence, McKinsey 7S

Art of Japanese Management, 7S co-author

Richard Pascale

Managing on the Edge, 7S co-architect

The Toyota Way (14 principles)

Lean Thinking, machine that changed the world

Lean Thinking (with Womack), value-stream mapping

Managing to Learn, A3 problem-solving

Toyota Kata, improvement kata / coaching kata

High-Velocity Edge, decoding the Toyota system

Kaizen, Gemba Kaizen

SMED, poka-yoke, mistake-proofing

Walter Shewhart

Statistical Process Control, PDSA precursor

Fishbone diagram, quality circles

Kano Model of customer satisfaction

Execution (with Bossidy), Know-How

Immunity to Change, adult-development stages of leadership

Immunity to Change (with Kegan)

Structural Holes, network brokerage in organizations

Smart Collaboration in professional firms

Michael Watkins

The First 90 Days, transition acceleration framework

Situational Leadership II, One-Minute Manager

Codified a people-first management philosophy in the bestselling "Mary Kay on People Management" (taught at Harvard Business School): the Invisible Sign ("Make Me Feel Important"), praise people to success, the Golden Rule applied to management, and P&L meaning People and Love.