The Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts

Ultimately, people are a product of their influences.
Even truly groundbreaking business thinkers use the ideas, the perspectives, and the advice of others as the basis for their own thoughts and actions.
So, who are the most popular leadership and management experts in the world?
That's a great question, one Jurgen Appelo, a creative networker, speaker, and author, set out to answer. His team factored in rankings, ratings, links, search ratios, and Twitter followers in an attempt to quantify popularity. #

1. John C. Maxwell
2. Seth Godin
3. Jack Welch
4. Guy Kawasaki
5. Tim Ferriss
6. Daniel Goleman
7. Dale Carnegie
8. Kenneth H. Blanchard
9. Richard Branson
10. Michael E. Porter
11. Marshall Goldsmith
12. Tom Peters
13. Stephen R. Covey
14. Robin Sharma
15. Simon Sinek
16. Patrick Lencioni
17. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
18. Tony Hsieh
19. Thomas L. Friedman
20. Orrin Woodward
21. Steve Farber
22. Don Tapscott
23. Clayton M. Christensen
24. David Allen
25. Brian Tracy
26. Bob Sutton
27. Michael Hyatt
28. John P. Kotter
29. Peter F. Drucker
30. Eric Ries
31. Anthony Robbins
32. Gary Hamel
33. Mike Myatt
34. Jason Fried
35. Charles Duhigg
36. Daniel H. Pink
37. Dan Rockwell
38. Marcus Buckingham
39. Chris Brady
40. Jurgen Appelo
41. Robert B. Cialdini
42. John Baldoni
43. Jeffrey Gitomer
44. Gretchen Rubin
45. Malcolm Gladwell
46. Susan Cain
47. Dan Ariely
48. Jim Collins
49. Liz Strauss
50. Chris Brogan

If you want to dig deeper, here are 51-100:
Charles H. Green, Mark Sanborn, Michael D. Watkins, Dave Ramsey, Steven D. Levitt, Peter M. Senge, Tim Sanders, Harvey Mackay, Tim O'Reilly, Vineet Nayar, Lolly Daskal, John Piper, Nassim N. Taleb, Ben Horowitz, Niall Ferguson, Warren Bennis, Terry (Starbucker) St. Marie, Kevin Eikenberry, Nancy Duarte, Scott Eblin, Derek Sivers, Mary Jo Asmus, Robert S. Kaplan, Jon Gordon, Sheryl Sandberg, Barry Posner, Wally Bock, Bill George, Bill Hybels, Lynda Gratton, Andy Stanley, Wayne W. Dyer, Bob Burg, Michael E. Gerber, Richard Florida, Bill Gates, Tanveer Naseer, Joel Spolsky, Gordon Tredgold, Michael McKinney, Vijay Govindarajan, Mike Figliuolo, Penelope Trunk, Ted Coiné, Steve Roesler, Walter Isaacson, Umair Haque, Subir Chowdhury, Kerry Patterson.