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