2006, 4 pages
Interview by: Alistair Craven
Fons Trompenaars has been named as one of the 50 most influential management thinkers alive.
Produced by Suntop Media in association with the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), the Thinkers 50 is the definitive bi-annual guide to which thinkers and ideas are in – and which have been consigned to business history.
Fons studied Economics at the Free University of Amsterdam and later earned a Ph.D. from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation on differences in conceptions of organizational structure in various cultures. He began work for Shell in 1981 and from 1985 he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam.
In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 this organization has operated as Trompenaars Hampden-Turner.
Amongst many client organizations, Fons Trompenaars has worked with corporate giants such as Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, and Merrill Lynch.
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