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March 19th, 2024
David McClelland (1917 – 1998) was an American psychologist, academician and scientist. David McClelland became famous with his work on McClelland Theory of Motivation. Next to that, based on his achievements (research, development and many scientific articles), he was…
March 19th, 2024
David Norton (1941-2023) was a financial management guru and founder of the Palladium Group. David Norton was also one of the co-founders of the famous Balanced Scorecard model.
The biography of David Norton
David began his academic career at the…
March 15th, 2024
Bruce Tuckman (1938 – 2016) was a scientist, consultant and Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at The Ohio State University. Bruce Tuckman is best known for his five stages of group development, also known as the Forming Storming Norming Performing …
February 26th, 2024
Katharine Briggs (Katharine Cook Briggs; 2 January 1875 – 10 July 1978) is the co-creator of the personality type test Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which she created together with her daughter Isabel Myers. The test makes Carl Jung’s theory about psychological…
February 26th, 2024
Isabel Myers (Isabel Briggs Myers; 18 October 1897 – 5 May 1980) was an American author and psychological theorist who created together with her mother the personality type test Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Today, the tool is…
February 12th, 2024
Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton Ziglar; 6 November 1926 – 28 November 2012) was a famous American salesman and motivational speaker. Although Zig Ziglar experienced several major tragedies, he had a special ability to see these in a positive light. Next…
January 31st, 2024
Philip Crosby (Philip Bayard Crosby; June 18, 1926 – August 18, 2001) was a businessman and author and is recognized as an influential quality guru. He is best known for the quality management concepts Quality is Free, Zero …
January 26th, 2024
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American-Jewish mathematician who became famous for being the founding father of management cybernetics. Norbert Wiener was also an expert in Stochastic processes (probability calculus models) and he made important scientific contributions in the field…
January 23rd, 2024
Mathieu Weggeman (1953) is Professor of Organizational Science and in particular of Innovation Management at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In addition he is a strategic associate at Squarewise and runs his own practice as an executive advisor.
Biography Mathieu…
December 28th, 2023
Wolfgang Köhler (January 21, 1887 – June 11, 1967) was a German psychologist and a central figure in the development of Gestalt psychology. Wolfgang Köhler also formulated the Gestalt theory of learning, a psychological framework that describes the processes…
December 28th, 2023
William Edward Deming (1900-1993) was an American statistician. William Edwards Deming was a famous quality management guru who strived for continuous improvement of organizations. The origin of his work can be found in the Japanese manufacturing industry. There he learned…
December 28th, 2023
Ulric Neisser (Ulric Richard Gustav Neisser: December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-American psychologist and professor at Cornell University. Ulric Neisser was also a member of the American National Academy of Sciences. He has been called the…