Great Minds
Architects of thought · Masters of the inner world

Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher, writer, and statesman, best known for pioneering the essay as a literary…
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, theologian, and satirist who is widely regarded as the great…
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Geert Hofstede
Geert Hofstede was a Dutch social psychologist and a pioneering figure in cross-cultural psychology and organizational culture. Bo…
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Harry Charalambos Triandis
Harry Charalambos Triandis was a prominent social psychologist and a foundational figure in the field of cross-cultural and cultur…
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Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus is a prominent social and cultural psychologist, serving as the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences…
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Shinobu Kitayama
Shinobu Kitayama is a Japanese social psychologist and the Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University o…
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Richard Eugene Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett (born 1941) is an American social psychologist and a foundational figure in the field of cultural psychology. A…
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Luther Gulick is the public administration theorist who gave the world POSDCORB—the enduring acronym for the seven functions of a …
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
Frederick Winslow Taylor is the founder of Scientific Management, a theory that sought to revolutionize industrial efficiency by a…
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Dwight Waldo
Dwight Waldo fundamentally challenged the intellectual foundations of public administration, arguing that the field had mistaken i…
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert Simon transformed public administration by replacing the rational-comprehensive model with the concept of bounded rational…
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Max Weber
Max Weber is the foundational theorist of bureaucracy and the concept of rational-legal authority, which together form the intelle…
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