Say what you will about Thomas Friedman or Malcolm Gladwell – Is one too anti-Arab for you? Is one too obsessed with thin-slicing? – but unlike you, they're picking up high five-figure speaking fees, thanks to their being in this era's crop of "influential business thinkers." The Wall Street Journal picked the Top 5 (click graphic for larger version), and you should trust their decision because they used advanced ranking technologies called "Google" and "Nexis." [WSJ]