Humanocracy, Gary Hamel
Humanocracy, Gary Hamel
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Humanocracy
Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

Author: Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/18/2020


Synopsis

In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.

Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of upheaval, top-down power structures and rule-choked management systems are a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors, and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Hence this book.

In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.

Critical building blocks include:
Motivation: Rallying colleagues to the challenge of busting bureaucracy
Models: Leveraging the experience of organizations that have profitably challenged the bureaucratic status quo
Mindsets: Escaping the industrial age thinking that frustrates progress
Mobilization: Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processes
Migration: Embedding the principles of humanocracy—ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox—in your organization's DNA
If you've finally run out of patience with bureaucratic bullshit . . .
If you want to build an organization that can outrun change . . .
If you're committed to giving every team member the chance to learn, grow, and contribute . . .
. . . then this book's for you.

Whatever your role or title, Humanocracy will show you how to launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in your organization to be their best and to do their best. The ultimate prize: an organization that's fit for the future and fit for human beings.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Frank on April 30, 2024

Takeaways from reading the book: What is bureaucracy? [URL not allowed] What is humanocracy? [URL not allowed] Why do we need humanocracy? - Pages 33 and 40: Change is increasing. The acceleration of change is the product of radical shifts in the growth of c......more

Goodreads review by Nick on September 07, 2020

Fantastic look into organizations that decentralize, treat their teams like humans, develop innovative processes, and work to eliminate bureaucracy. While I disagree with the negative tone used to portray the HR department/function of an organization this book is worth the read. The mindset alone wi......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on May 24, 2024

Reading this book was a five month slog: I just decided to bite the bullet and power through the last 40% in a four-day span. What did I like about it? The book made a lot of excellent points that challenge the standard corporate "we just do it this way because we've always done it this way" thought......more

Goodreads review by Roberto on August 20, 2020

Brilliant and inspiring Actually one of the best reading I did in the last years. I knew Hamel for his provocative and inspiring contributions. Together with Michele Zanini he has created something that provides many ideas and, above all, invites readers to take the initiative in such a complex, but......more

Goodreads review by Jorge on August 03, 2020

Cómo rescatar nuestra humanidad de la creciente burocracia y deshumanización. La salvación está en nosotros.......more