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Coauthor with Huggy Rao of Scaling Up Excellence: Getting More Without Settling for Less

Co-founder and co-director of Big Picture Learning, which runs The Met School and College Unbound

Author of The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills

Author of Hostage at the Table and coauthor of Care to Dare

Francis Gouillart is the co-author (with Venkat Ramaswamy) of The Power of Co-Creation: Build It With Them To Boost Growth, Productivity and Profits

Bill Taylor is the author of Practically Radical

Kevin Kelly is the author of What Technology Wants

Coauthor of The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems

Author of Personality Poker: The Playing Card Tool for Driving High-Performance Teamwork and Innovation

Coauthor of The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work

Coauthor of Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better

Author of Serve to Lead: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System

Author of The Economics of Integrity: From Dairy Farmers to Toyota, How Wealth Is Built on Trust and What That Means for Our Future

Organizational culture consultant and author of Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help

Creative Director & Designer for Stauber Brand Studio

Serial entrepreneur who founded Avid and Wildfire, he now works with nonprofits including FutureBoston and Move With Freedom, and helps entrepreneurs with start-ups

Host of Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and author of many books, most recently A Christmas Blizzard

Coauthor of In Search of Excellence, and author of The Renewal Factor and What America Does Right: Learning from Companies That Put People First

Author of Built to Win: Creating a World-Class Negotiating Organization

Author of The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business

Co-founder and CEO of the BOMA Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that works to develop new opportunities for education, capacity-building, and entrepreneurial innovation in northern Kenya

Author of Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust

Founder of Retail Management Consultants and author of Retail Superstars: Inside the 25 Best Independent Stores In America

President and CEO of Communispace, one of the fastest growing social networking companies in the U.S.

Author of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing

Author of The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.

Coauthor, with Julien Smith, of Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust

Communications coach and author of Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma

Coauthors of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You

Author of World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories

Chairman of Buyology Inc., New York, and BRAND sense Agency, London, and author of Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

Entrepreneur, blogger, and author of Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

Author of The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right

Coauthor of The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up

A founder of Sideshow Digital and author of Your Business Brickyard: Getting back to the basics to make your business more fun to run

Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, and coauthor of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University and author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions

Author of Good in a Room: How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience

Founder of Yastrow & Co. and author of We: The Ideal Customer Relationship

President of the Environmental Defense Fund and coauthor of Earth: The Sequel—The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Coauthors of Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates

Dan Roam is the founder and president of Digital Roam Inc., and the author of
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

Author of Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars

Coauthor of The Leadership Experience: From Individual Success to Organization Significance

Former editor of Harvard Business Review and author of America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

Founder of Sensory Logic, Inc., and author of Body of Truth and Emotionomics: Winning Hearts and Minds

Well-known authority on design and coauthor with Terence Conran of Design: Intelligence Made Visible

Co-founders of Strategic Horizons LLP and coauthors of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want

Founder of Women’s Business Boston and author of Her Turn: Why It’s Time for Women to Lead in America

Founder and president of Floyd Consulting and author of The Dream Manager

Pursue the Passion: Brett Farmiloe and Zach Hubbell are on a roadtrip to find people passionate about their work along with Jay Whiting and Noah Pollack

Chief Happiness Officer and author of Happy Hour is 9 to 5: How to Love Your Job, Love Your Life, and Kick Butt at Work

President of National Braille Press, a nonprofit Braille publishing company

Founder/CEO of The TrendSight Group and author of PrimeTime Women™: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders

Author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success

President of the Center for Work-Life Policy and author of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success

Founder of the user experience consulting firm Creative Good and author of Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

Marketing guru and author of nine books, the latest of which is The Dip: The Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Coauthor of Life’s a Pitch … How to Be Businesslike with Your Emotional Life and Emotional with Your Business Life

Coauthor of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder—How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

Sally Helgesen, Marti Barletta, and Susan Willett Bird speak about Women Gurus Network, the consortium of female gurus they have founded

Founder of consulting firm RW Trend and author of The Hummer and the Mini: Navigating the Contradictions of the New Trend Landscape

Founder of think tank New Paradigm and coauthor of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Coauthor with his brother, Chip, of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Co-founder of Global Peace Networks and coauthor of The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Coauthor with Carol Orsborn of BOOM: Marketing to the Ultimate Power Consumer—the Baby Boomer Woman

Coauthor of Don’t Think Pink and author of the blog Learned on Women and e-book 9 on Marketing

Authors of Creating Customer Evangelists and Citizen Marketers: When People Are the Messageand the blog Church of the Customer

Founder of the Simplicity Consortium at the MIT Media Lab and author of The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

Founder, Chief Executive Bear, and Chairman of Build-A-Bear Workshop® and author of The Bear Necessities of Business: Building a Company with Heart

Author of Writing to Change the World

Coauthors of Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win

Author of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children

Author of Bigger Isn’t Always Better: The New Mindset for Real Business Growth

Author of the Brand Autopsy blog and Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture

Author of Small Is the New Big

Founder of Parenting magazine and author of Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her Secrets So You Can Transform Your Career

Author of Killer Instinct, Company Man, Paranoia, and more

Author of The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth

Coauthor, with Bob Sutton, of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management

Author of U R a Brand! How Smart People Brand Themselves for Business Success

Author of Management by Baseball: The Official Rules for Winning Management in Any Field

Author of FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want

Coauthor of Change the Way You See Everything Through Asset-Based Thinking

Author of the scobleizer blog and coauthor of Naked Conversations

Chairman of Aubrey Daniels International and coauthor of Measure of a Leader: An Actionable Formula for Legendary Leadership

Author of Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up

Author of Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

Artist, consultant, teacher, humorist, and maker of “stuff”

Author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big

Author of Goal-Free Living

Author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games

Founder of BzzAgent and coauthor of Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Author of The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of the Planet

Renowned futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Author of Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World

Author of The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in America

General Manager of IDEO and coauthor of The Ten Faces of Innovation

Author of Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life

Author of The Power of the Purse: How Smart Businesses Are Adapting to the World’s Most Important Consumers—Women

Author of Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps

Author of Passionate and Profitable: Why Customer Strategies Fail and Ten Steps To Do Them Right

Author of Made In China: What Western Managers Can Learn From Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs

Founder and president of 37signals and coauthor of Defensive Design for the Web

Co-director of the Big Picture Company and director of The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, R.I.

Author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent

Coauthor, with Andrea Learned, of Don’t Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy—And How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market

Author of A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

Author of Brand Harmony: Achieving Dynamic Results by Orchestrating Your Customer’s Total Experience

Author of Nature’s Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World

Author of The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians—and How We Can Survive Them

Coauthor of Ageless Marketing: Strategies for Reaching the Hearts and Minds of the New Customer Majority

Sharon Whiteley, CEO of ThirdAge and coauthor of The Old Girls’ Network

Lou Carbone, author of Clued In: How To Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again

Rolf Jensen, author of The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business

Author of Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands

Author of Marketing to Women: How to Understand, Reach and Increase Your Share of the World’s Largest Market Segment

Author of The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership

Coauthors of Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind

Coauthor, with Neil Fiske, of Trading Up: The New American Luxury

Coauthor of The CEO and the Monk: One Company’s Journey to Profit and Purpose

Author of The Substance of Style

Author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

Coauthor, with Doran J. Levy, Ph.D., of Marketing To The Mind Set Of Boomers And Their Elders: Using Psychographics And More To Identify And Reach Your Best Targets

Coauthor of Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

Author of The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself

Author of A New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century

Author of Work Naked: Eight Essential Principles for Peak Performance In The Virtual Workplace

Author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web

Author of One Kid At A Time: Big Lessons From A Small School

Author of Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation

Author of Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work

Author of Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

Author of The Nature of Economies and The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Coauthor of Don’t Kill the Bosses! Escaping the Hierarchy Trap

Author of Free Agent Nation

Author of Change Is Everybody’s Business and coauthor of The Age of Participation

Author of America’s Competitive Secret: Women Managers

Author of The First Sex

Author of Future Wealth

Author of Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping

Author of It’s Not Business, It’s Personal

Author of You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

Author of Aha!—10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas

The founder and Chief Futurist of Wf360

Former leader of McKinsey & Company’s War for Talent Practice and coauthor of The War for Talent

General Manager of IDEO, and author of The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm

Authors of The Art of Possibility

Author of The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations

Author of Joystick Nation: How Video Games Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds

Author of Unleashing the Ideavirus

Author of Managing the Professional Service Firm

Founder and CEO of IDEO, one of America’s premier design firms.

Author of Creating You & Co: Learn to Think Like the CEO of Your Own Career

Author of Soloing: Realizing Your Life’s Ambition

Coauthor of EVEolution

Coauthors of A Future Perfect

Coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto

Entrepreneur and author of 201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business

Author of Corporate Religion

Author of Serious Play