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What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation - new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. In "The Future of Management", Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever. Why? The management paradigm of the last century - centred on control and efficiency - no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. To thrive in the future, companies must reinvent management.Hamel explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator, revealing: the make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of relentless, head-snapping change; the toxic effects of traditional management beliefs; the unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in 'modern management pioneers'; the radical principles that will need to become part of every company's 'management DNA'; and, the steps your company can take now to build your 'management advantage'. Practical and profound, "The Future of Management" features examples from Google, W.L. Gore, Whole Foods, IBM, Samsung, Best Buy, and other blue-ribbon management innovators.
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| Publisher | Harvard Business School Press | | Release date | 10/2007 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
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 All factors point to the fact that "Innovation" is management's future - Hamel is peerless!
Of all the books I've read on building competitive advantage, Gary Hamel's "The Future of Mangement" is the best! Hamel's thoughts deliver the most thorough, authentic, realistic, evidenced-based, significant, and more importantly, "relevant" case for the future of management compared to any other business/mamgement thinker!
Do yourself a favor, buy this book; digest its principles, become a management innovator, become a true leader. The future is now.
A Wake-Up Call
"The Future of Management" is a wake-up call for those in the bureaucratic class who believe that they can preserve their 19th century management model in a post-Internet world. Gary Hamel rattles this belief by cogently noting that sometime over the next decade every company will be challenged to change in a way for which there is no precedent. That's because we are reaching the limits of management as most of us have known it. Hamel observes that most of today's managers are "poltergeists" blindly following the rules and conventions of an obsolete technology whose heyday was in the early years of the 20th century. As a consequence, the main constraint and the greatest threat to the continued success of most companies may very well be their own managers.
"The Future of Management" makes a compelling case for the need for a paradigm shift in the ways managers lead organizations in our new century. The most successful companies over the next decade will be those who write the new rules for the new age spawned by the social revolution that is now gathering on the Web. To thrive in this increasingly disruptive world, managers will need to learn how to coordinate the efforts of thousands of individuals without creating burdensome hierarchies. Because the Web is turning the traditional smoke-stack management model on its head, the underlying technology of management will need to be reinvented.
Reinventing management means coming to terms with the new reality that, in a web-based world, the most effective organizations are collaborative communities. Letting go of hierarchical bureaucracies and embracing collaborative communities will demand a mental revolution and an imaginative leap that will be both uncomfortable and unfamiliar for the typical manager. However, if you are ready to take the leap, this book will help you to image the innovative possibilities for a new architecture of participation and collaboration so that you can become part of the reinvention of the new discipline that is the future of management.
Brilliant!
Innovation is a developing issue nowadays. If you want to follow the best steps to implement successful innovation strategies, you MUST read this book. You will be surprised to find that one of the most important business innovation strategy is located inside you, as responsible of your organization.
Going deep through management innovation, it is a obscure and difficult matter to analyze. Here again, Hamel shows us one of the most hidden frontiers to innovation.
Evidence in management innovation is still a pending subject, but the door which Hamel has opened, will soon develop new ways and reports, which can lead to another way to reach the innovation impact everyone wants to get from the market.
Insights on possible management revolution
Gary Hamel's "Future of Management" suggests that the 20th century management styles have come to an end and a different management paradigm is to be expected in the 21th century. He demonstrates several problems that will need to be solved in the 21th century, uses several case studies and gives ideas on how we might expect management to change. The book is an insightful and thought provoking book which tries to challenge deep management assumptions.
The book consists of four parts. In the first part (two chapters) Hamel demonstrates that management styles in the world have been the same for the last 50 years, there hasn't been major management innovations. He states that the potential benefits of management innovation are much larger than strategic or operational innovation and that therefore... this is important.
The second part covers three case studies of management innovation. The first case study is Whole Foods Market which is strongly team-based and locally management. The second case study is WL Gore which where there are no managers, only leaders elected by followers and the last case study is google with its focus on innovation and small teams.
The third part sets the agenda for creating management innovation. Management innovation contains three ingredients. First, a structured method for challenging current management assumptions and brainstorming alternatives. Second, new principles need to be adopted as the old principles behind management (such as command, control, hierarchy, standardization) do not work anymore in the 21th century. Last, current management alternatives need to be studies (such as the earlier case studies) to learn what they did different, how, and if that can also work in your company.
The last part of the "change chapter" of how can you bring this to your organization. First Hamel introduces two different case studies of small management innovation (which were not very convincing) and tries to extract lessons that you can use in your journey to become a management innovator. The final chapter, Hamel speculates that management 2.0 will be like web 2.0... a social web of relationships. He closes the book with stating that he doesn't know how management will change... but it will change in the next 20 years.
I found the future of management an insightful book. It tries to ask questions and give examples rather than give you the answers to how to manage your company. It is well written, very relevant, concrete and yet also highly conceptual. It is definitively recommended for managers who want to make their companies a better place to work.
A favorite- encapsulates stories, trends, and theory on future.
One of my new favorite books! Gary encapsulates many of the questions, trends, and cases that represent the future of management. The book is well written and easy to read and gets the mind racing with ideas of how to approach innovation, management, and business in a new and appropriate way based on advancements in technology, organizational needs, and a changing business and talent landscape. I highly recommend this book.
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