Cool Friends Sorted Alphabetically
Angus, Jeff
Author of Management by Baseball: The Official Rules for Winning Management in Any Field
Posted on April 25, 2006
Applegate, Jane
Entrepreneur and author of 201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business
Posted on March 22, 2000
Ariely, Dan
Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University and author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
Posted on July 11, 2008
Arussy, Lior
Author of Passionate and Profitable: Why Customer Strategies Fail and Ten Steps To Do Them Right
Posted on August 17, 2005
Ayan, Jordan
Author of Aha!—10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas
Posted on March 30, 2001
Balter, Dave
Founder of BzzAgent and coauthor of Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Posted on December 14, 2005
Barletta, Martha
Author of Marketing to Women: How to Understand, Reach and Increase Your Share of the World’s Largest Market Segment
Posted on August 12, 2004
Barletta, Marti (No. 2)
Founder/CEO of The TrendSight Group and author of PrimeTime Women™: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders
Posted on September 13, 2007
Bayley, Stephen
Coauthor of Life’s a Pitch … How to Be Businesslike with Your Emotional Life and Emotional with Your Business Life
Posted on May 23, 2007
Bayley, Stephen (No. 2)
Well-known authority on design and coauthor with Terence Conran of Design: Intelligence Made Visible
Posted on December 31, 2007
Beckström, Rod
Co-founder of Global Peace Networks and coauthor of The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Posted on February 22, 2007
Bedbury, Scott
Author of A New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century
Posted on September 30, 2002
Bernasek, Anna
Posted on July 19, 2010
Birchard, Bill
Author of Nature’s Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World
Posted on March 28, 2005
Bridges, William
Author of Creating You & Co: Learn to Think Like the CEO of Your Own Career
Posted on September 15, 2000
Brodsky, Norm
Coauthor of The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up
Posted on October 2, 2008
Brogan, Chris
Coauthor, with Julien Smith, of Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
Posted on March 26, 2009
Brown, Mary
Coauthor with Carol Orsborn of BOOM: Marketing to the Ultimate Power Consumer—the Baby Boomer Woman
Posted on January 29, 2007
Burlingham, Bo
Author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big
Posted on January 25, 2006
Carbone, Lou
Lou Carbone, author of Clued In: How To Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again
Posted on November 8, 2004
Castronova, Edward
Author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games
Posted on December 20, 2005
Clark, Maxine
Founder, Chief Executive Bear, and Chairman of Build-A-Bear Workshop® and author of The Bear Necessities of Business: Building a Company with Heart
Posted on November 15, 2006
Colson, Kathleen
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
Posted on August 21, 2009
Coram, Robert
Author of Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Posted on February 8, 2006
Covert, Jack and Todd Sattersten
Coauthors of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You
Posted on February 11, 2009
Coyle, Dan
Author of The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.
Posted on April 29, 2009
Coyle, Dan (No.2)
Author of The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
Posted on December 17, 2012
Cramer, Kathryn
Coauthor of Change the Way You See Everything Through Asset-Based Thinking
Posted on March 28, 2006
Crossland, Ron
Coauthor of The Leadership Experience: From Individual Success to Organization Significance
Posted on February 20, 2008
Culbert, Sam
Coauthor of Don’t Kill the Bosses! Escaping the Hierarchy Trap
Posted on October 25, 2001
Daniels, Aubrey
Chairman of Aubrey Daniels International and coauthor of Measure of a Leader: An Actionable Formula for Legendary Leadership
Posted on February 22, 2006
Donlan, Vicki
Founder of Women’s Business Boston and author of Her Turn: Why It’s Time for Women to Lead in America
Posted on November 23, 2007
Dychtwald, Maddy
Coauthor of Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better
Posted on September 17, 2010
Farber, Steve
Author of The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership
Posted on June 1, 2004
Farmiloe, Brett and Zach Hubbell
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
Posted on October 26, 2007
Farson, Richard
Coauthor of Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation
Posted on February 10, 2003
Florida, Richard
Author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
Posted on May 2, 2005
Freedman, Dave
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
Posted on May 9, 2007
Fried, Jason
Founder and president of 37signals and coauthor of Defensive Design for the Web
Posted on July 1, 2005
Froggatt, Cynthia
Author of Work Naked: Eight Essential Principles for Peak Performance In The Virtual Workplace
Posted on July 19, 2002
Gartner, John
Author of The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in America
Posted on November 8, 2005
Gibson, Rowan and Peter Skarzynski
Coauthors of Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates
Posted on March 26, 2008
Godin, Seth (No. 3)
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)
Posted on June 14, 2007
Gouillart, Francis
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
Posted on February 17, 2011
Heath, Dan
Coauthor with his brother, Chip, of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Posted on March 2, 2007
Helgesen, Sally
Author of The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations
Posted on December 18, 2000
Helgesen, Sally (No. 2)
Author of Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work
Posted on March 15, 2002
Helgesen, Sally (No. 3)
Coauthor of The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work
Posted on October 21, 2010
Herz, J.C.
Author of Joystick Nation: How Video Games Ate Our Quarters, Won Our Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds
Posted on December 1, 2000
Hessan, Diane
President and CEO of Communispace, one of the fastest growing social networking companies in the U.S.
Posted on May 29, 2009
Hewlett, Sylvia
President of the Center for Work-Life Policy and author of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Posted on July 20, 2007
Hiam, Michael
Author of Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars
Posted on February 28, 2008
Hill, Dan
Founder of Sensory Logic, Inc., and author of Body of Truth and Emotionomics: Winning Hearts and Minds
Posted on January 16, 2008
Hogshead, Sally
Author of Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life
Posted on October 18, 2005
Huba, Jackie and Ben McConnell
Authors of Creating Customer Evangelists and Citizen Marketers: When People Are the Messageand the blog Church of the Customer
Posted on December 29, 2006
Hunt, Tara
Author of The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business
Posted on September 8, 2009
Hurst, Mark
Founder of the user experience consulting firm Creative Good and author of Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload
Posted on July 10, 2007
Jackson, Eric
Author of The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of the Planet
Posted on December 7, 2005
Jacobs, Jane
Author of The Nature of Economies and The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Posted on February 4, 2002
Jensen, Rolf
Rolf Jensen, author of The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business
Posted on September 16, 2004
Johnson, Lisa
Coauthor, with Andrea Learned, of Don’t Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy—And How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market
Posted on April 26, 2005
Kador, John
Author of Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust
Posted on July 10, 2009
Kanter, Rosabeth
Former editor of Harvard Business Review and author of America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
Posted on February 1, 2008
Kaputa, Catherine
Author of U R a Brand! How Smart People Brand Themselves for Business Success
Posted on May 9, 2006
Kawasaki, Guy
Entrepreneur, blogger, and author of Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
Posted on November 19, 2008
Keillor, Garrison
Host of Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and author of many books, most recently A Christmas Blizzard
Posted on December 11, 2009
Kelley, David
Founder and CEO of IDEO, one of America’s premier design firms.
Posted on September 21, 2000
Kelley, Tom
General Manager of IDEO, and author of The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm
Posted on February 2, 2001
Kelley, Tom (No. 2)
General Manager of IDEO and coauthor of The Ten Faces of Innovation
Posted on October 25, 2005
Kelly, Eamonn
Author of Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World
Posted on November 16, 2005
Kelly, Matthew
Founder and president of Floyd Consulting and author of The Dream Manager
Posted on November 9, 2007
Kjerulf, Alex
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
Posted on October 11, 2007
Kohlrieser, George
Author of Hostage at the Table and coauthor of Care to Dare
Posted on October 29, 2012
Krupp, Fred
President of the Environmental Defense Fund and coauthor of Earth: The Sequel—The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Posted on April 11, 2008
Kurzweil, Ray
Renowned futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Posted on November 28, 2005
Learned, Andrea
Coauthor of Don’t Think Pink and author of the blog Learned on Women and e-book 9 on Marketing
Posted on January 10, 2007
Lindstrom, Martin
Chairman of Buyology Inc., New York, and BRAND sense Agency, London, and author of Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
Posted on December 11, 2008
Lipman-Blumen, Jean
Author of The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians—and How We Can Survive Them
Posted on March 14, 2005
Littky, Dennis
Co-director of the Big Picture Company and director of The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center in Providence, R.I.
Posted on June 17, 2005
Littky, Dennis (No.2)
Co-founder and co-director of Big Picture Learning, which runs The Met School and College Unbound
Posted on April 24, 2014
Maeda, John
Founder of the Simplicity Consortium at the MIT Media Lab and author of The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
Posted on December 13, 2006
Mann, Howard
A founder of Sideshow Digital and author of Your Business Brickyard: Getting back to the basics to make your business more fun to run
Posted on September 15, 2008
May, Matthew
Author of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
Posted on May 19, 2009
McLagan, Pat
Author of Change Is Everybody’s Business and coauthor of The Age of Participation
Posted on September 15, 2001
Michaels, Ed
Former leader of McKinsey & Company’s War for Talent Practice and coauthor of The War for Talent
Posted on February 16, 2001
Moore, John
Author of the Brand Autopsy blog and Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture
Posted on September 13, 2006
Moore, Kenny
Coauthor of The CEO and the Monk: One Company’s Journey to Profit and Purpose
Posted on February 16, 2004
Morgan, Carol
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
Posted on July 8, 2003
Morgan, Nick
Communications coach and author of Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma
Posted on March 4, 2009
Movius, Hal
Author of Built to Win: Creating a World-Class Negotiating Organization
Posted on October 8, 2009
Nissanoff, Daniel
Author of FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want
Posted on April 12, 2006
Palmer, Stephanie
Author of Good in a Room: How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience
Posted on June 13, 2008
Pascale, Richard
Coauthor of The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems
Posted on December 2, 2010
Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Coauthor, with Bob Sutton, of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management
Posted on May 23, 2006
Pine, Joe and Jim Gilmore
Co-founders of Strategic Horizons LLP and coauthors of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want
Posted on December 20, 2007
Pink, Dan (No. 2)
Author of A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
Posted on April 18, 2005
Raeder, Bill
President of National Braille Press, a nonprofit Braille publishing company
Posted on September 26, 2007
Reichheld, Fred
Author of The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth
Posted on June 6, 2006
Ridderstråle, Jonas and Kjell Nordström
Coauthors of Karaoke Capitalism: Management for Mankind
Posted on April 27, 2004
Roam, Dan
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
Posted on March 13, 2008
Ryan Madson, Patricia
Author of Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up
Posted on February 15, 2006
Sanders, Tim
Author of Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
Posted on February 19, 2002
Schein, Ed
Organizational culture consultant and author of Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help
Posted on May 24, 2010
Scoble, Robert
Author of the scobleizer blog and coauthor of Naked Conversations
Posted on February 28, 2006
Scott, David Meerman
Author of World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories
Posted on January 19, 2009
Setty, Rajesh
Author of Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps
Posted on September 18, 2005
Shapiro, Stephen (No. 2)
Author of Personality Poker: The Playing Card Tool for Driving High-Performance Teamwork and Innovation
Posted on November 16, 2010
Silverstein, Michael
Coauthor, with Neil Fiske, of Trading Up: The New American Luxury
Posted on March 8, 2004
Strock, James
Author of Serve to Lead: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System
Posted on August 17, 2010
Sull, Donald
Author of Made In China: What Western Managers Can Learn From Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs
Posted on July 17, 2005
Sutton, Robert
Author of Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Posted on April 8, 2002
Sutton, Robert (No.2)
Coauthor with Huggy Rao of Scaling Up Excellence: Getting More Without Settling for Less
Posted on September 30, 2014
Tannen, Deborah
Author of You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Posted on April 24, 2001
Tapscott, Don
Founder of think tank New Paradigm and coauthor of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Posted on March 13, 2007
Taylor, Bill and Polly LaBarre
Coauthors of Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
Posted on October 12, 2006
Thaler, Richard
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
Posted on August 26, 2008
Tomasko, Bob
Author of Bigger Isn’t Always Better: The New Mindset for Real Business Growth
Posted on September 20, 2006
Vienne, Veronique
Author of The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself
Posted on November 12, 2002
Warner, Bill
Serial entrepreneur who founded Avid and Wildfire, he now works with nonprofits including FutureBoston and Move With Freedom, and helps entrepreneurs with start-ups
Posted on March 24, 2010
Warner, Fara
Author of The Power of the Purse: How Smart Businesses Are Adapting to the World’s Most Important Consumers—Women
Posted on October 7, 2005
Waterman, Robert
Coauthor of In Search of Excellence, and author of The Renewal Factor and What America Does Right: Learning from Companies That Put People First
Posted on November 17, 2009
Waters, Robyn
Founder of consulting firm RW Trend and author of The Hummer and the Mini: Navigating the Contradictions of the New Trend Landscape
Posted on March 23, 2007
Weil, Debbie
Author of The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right
Posted on November 3, 2008
Weinberger, David
Author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
Posted on May 28, 2002
Whalin, George
Founder of Retail Management Consultants and author of Retail Superstars: Inside the 25 Best Independent Stores In America
Posted on June 16, 2009
Whiteley, Sharon
Sharon Whiteley, CEO of ThirdAge and coauthor of The Old Girls’ Network
Posted on January 20, 2005
Wolaner, Robin
Founder of Parenting magazine and author of Naked in the Boardroom: A CEO Bares Her Secrets So You Can Transform Your Career
Posted on July 12, 2006
Wolfe, David
Coauthor of Ageless Marketing: Strategies for Reaching the Hearts and Minds of the New Customer Majority
Posted on February 2, 2005
Women Gurus Network
Sally Helgesen, Marti Barletta, and Susan Willett Bird speak about Women Gurus Network, the consortium of female gurus they have founded
Posted on April 25, 2007
Wood, John
Author of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children
Posted on October 3, 2006
Yastrow, Steve
Author of Brand Harmony: Achieving Dynamic Results by Orchestrating Your Customer’s Total Experience
Posted on April 5, 2005
Yastrow, Steve (No. 2)
Founder of Yastrow & Co. and author of We: The Ideal Customer Relationship
Posted on May 15, 2008