Stuart Crainer


Stuart Crainer is an author, editor, adviser and entrepreneur.
He is co-founder of Thinkers50, the global platform for management ideas. His book credits include The Financial Times Handbook of Management, The Management Century and a biography of the management guru Tom Peters.
He is a former columnist to The Times and contributing editor to the American magazine Strategy+Business. 
In the 1990s he also worked as a ghostwriter on a number of bestselling business books and was editor of the award-winning magazine Business Strategy Review. 
His long-time co-author and business partner is Des Dearlove. Their books, available in more than 15 languages, include Gravy Training and Generation Entrepreneur. His work with Dearlove in business thought leadership led Management Today to describe them as “market makers par excellence”.
Crainer is an adjunct professor at IE Business School in Madrid, director of the Business Ecosystem Alliance and is also the author of Atlantic Crossing.

Selected publications

  • The Decline and Rise of British ''Industry, Mercury, 1988
  • Makers of Management, Macmillan, 1990
  • Zeebrugge: Learning from Disaster, HFA, 1993
  • What Do High Performance Managers Really Do?, Pitman, 1993
  • The Financial Times Handbook of Management ,'' FT Pitman, 1995
  • The Real Power of Brands, Pitman, 1995
  • Making Re-engineering Happen, Pitman, 1995
  • How to Have a Brilliant Career, Pitman, 1995
  • The Future of Leadership, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 1996
  • The Tom Peters Phenomenon, Capstone, 1997
  • The Ultimate Business Library, Capstone, 1997
  • The Ultimate Business Guru Book, Capstone, 1997
  • The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations, Capstone, 1997
  • Leaders on Leadership, Pitman, 1998
  • Key ''Management Ideas, Financial Times Pitman, 1998
  • Which Executive Programme?, Economist Intelligence Unit, 1998
  • Gravy Training: Inside the Business of Business School, Jossey Bass, 1999
  • The 75 Greatest Management Decisions, Amacom, 1999
  • The Ultimate Book of Business Brands, Capstone, 1999
  • The Freethinker’s A-Z of the New World of Business, Capstone, 1999
  • MBA Planet, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000
  • The Financial Times Handbook of Management ,'' FT Pitman, 2000
  • Generation Entrepreneur, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000
  • The Management Century, Jossey Bass, 2000
  • Business Minds, FT Prentice Hall, 2001
  • Firestarters!, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2001
  • Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson Way, Capstone, 2002
  • The Career Adventurer’s Fieldbook, Capstone, 2002
  • Business, the Universe and Everything, Capstone, 2003
  • The Financial Times Handbook of Management, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004
  • The Business World Atlas, Meteor Press, 2006
  • Atlantic Crossing, St Giles Poets, 2015
  • Dear CEO, Bloomsbury, 2017
  • Ecosystems Inc., Thinkers50, 2020