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Thought Leader Index 2015
News from the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute:
Thought leaders beyond the West
Global Thought Leader Index: The power of memes
The 2015 WorldPost/GDI Thought Leaders Index
Why German thought leaders don’t speak German
Huffington Post:
The World’s Most Influential Voices of 2015
El País:
EL PAÍS es el medio más influyente de Internet en el mundo hispanohablante
Thought Leader Index 2014
News from the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute:
Thought Leaders 2014: the most influential thinkers
Thought Leaders 2014: name crunching as a method
GDI Impuls:
Gobal-Thought-Leader 2013 (pdf in Movebox)
Website
Thought Leader Index 2014
Interacive Map
Thought Leaders 2014
Thought Leader Index 2013
News from the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute:
The global thought leaders 2013
GDI Impuls:
Global-Thought-Leader 2013
Thought Leader Index 2012
News from the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute:
These are the most important thought leaders
GDI Impuls:
The megatrendsetters
Scientific Articles:
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