Former prime minister Gordon Brown paid tribute, describing Mr Wicks as "a great thinker, writer, campaigner and parliamentarian".

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Another modern law was best described by banking legend Walter Wriston, a great thinker who died a year ago.

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"He was a great thinker, " said Hadi Sekura, of Chatham House, a London-based organization for the analysis of international issues.

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He craves recognition as a great thinker.

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Brown is clearly a grand and well informed thinker with a great deal of knowledge about central banking history.

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Steve Jobs is a great outside the box thinker.

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He was known chiefly as a clear thinker and a great orator, with a passion for justice and a determination to heal the deep divisions of our land.

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If you know your colleague is a very innovative thinker, but not always great with the execution, perhaps you could find ways to leverage that strength while also bringing in another teammate to help on the execution.

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