Talk:Business guru

Proposed Merge / Deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... it was a requested article in WikiProject Business, so it should probably be improved before deleted. Or can someone clarify what standard is needed for a requested article to be created? --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 19:58, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Personally, I would nominate the page for AfD as a "dictionary definition" WP:DICTDEF, or perhaps redirect the page to Expert based on the existing content.  What distinguishes a "Business guru" from an expert/mentor in any other field? -- Versa  geek  20:23, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comment. I am open to merging this content with another page, but I'm not sure "expert" is the right one. You wouldn't merge "biologist" to "expert" because they're experts in biology.
 * A "business guru" as I understand it can be both a theorist (like Peter Drucker or Michael Porter) or a practitioner (Alfred Sloan, Warren Buffett). This means "guru" isn't the same as "manager," "business manager," or "business theorist." The idea is that there is a science to business, and business gurus are the ones who formalized it with their writing and/or business practices. It is like a general term for a computer scientist and a programmer if there were a list of great thinkers that includes best practices from both... I am also not sure if there is something innate about how business focuses more on learning from practice than theory than most other disciplines.
 * This may just belong to business or management, but I note that there are also separate pages for biology and biologist. I'm open to suggestions here... --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 21:04, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Looking around on Wikipedia, I don't see another obvious page where Drucker, Porter, Sloan, and Taylor are all in the same place. When I look for Galileo, Einstein, and Newton, I see a few places where they're all together (e.g., History of Physics). I am not saying that the business gurus I've listed are as historically important as Galileo etc, but I do think there should be a single page on Wikipedia where you can find them. Maybe "history of business" or something like that? --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 21:10, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I guess Businessperson is the right article, in which this belongs as subsection. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 05:27, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Businessperson could work. The subsection would need some introduction, especially to note that Drucker and Porter were famous for their theories and writing, not for being businesspeople (is that a word? awkward). --GoldCoastPrior (talk) 14:52, 16 September 2015 (UTC)