Chapter 5 The Best of the Rest Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Charles Handy Since the success of Tom Peters, many new management thinkers have tried to become gurus, Thefe gre gurus who compare Bisiness with sport, there are gliris who say that business should learn the lessons of religion and, of course, there are gurus who simply state the obvious. ‘The truth is that the business world is now so competitive that companies are ready to pay huge amounts of money for almost any new ideas. AS a result, its sometimes hard to tell the difference between a real management guru and someone who just wants to get rich quid But as well as Taylor, Sloan, Drucker and Peters, there are two other management thinkers who are certainly great modern gurus —Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Charles Handy. . Rosabeth Moss Kanter is one of the few women management gurus. She has spent her working problems of large companies and the ways they have to change to compete in the modern world. She believes that large compani today are in a kind of Olympic Games for business. She says that Jjust ike the Olympics, business is now an international ‘competition. And just like the Olympics, modern business tests people se, the big difference between business and the real Olympics is the kind of games that are played. According to Kanter, companies now find that they are playing games like the