Note From Editor-in-Chief

Amit Kapoor 1st July 2017 403 Views

When dealing with the complexities of life, Plato had a wont of stripping down matters to their very core. But when it came to the power of ideas, he simply stated that “Ideas are the source of all things.” The statement could not have been truer. As we put together this issue paying ode to the sheer influence of powerful ideas over the years by throughout history, I could not have been any more convinced that ideas have, in fact, been the source of all things we experience and practice today.

Even in the field of management, revolutionary ideas by leading management thinkers across generations have moulded the way businesses operate and build strategies. Building on this legacy, this issue of Thinkers highlights the evolution of management ideas in the 21^st century and aims to recognise the next generation of business thinkers and their inspired work.

As an ode to the Thinkers of the present generation we bring this issue that is at the cusp of original thinking and practical application.

About the author

Amit Kapoor

Dr. Amit Kapoor is President & CEO of India Council on Competitiveness; Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness, India and Editor-in-Chief of Thinkers. He is the chair for the Social Progress Imperative and Shared Value Initiative in India and sits on the board of Competitiveness initiatives in Mexico, Netherlands, Italy & France and University of Vermont’s SEMBA Advisory Board. In addition to being advisor to Thinkers50 and participant with the Global Solutions Network, he is an affiliate faculty for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness & Value Based Health Care Delivery courses of Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School and an instructor with Harvard Business Publishing in the area of Strategy, Competitiveness and Business Models. He has been inducted into the Competitiveness Hall of Fame which is administered by Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School.