The Future of Management, Gary Hamel
The Future of Management, Gary Hamel
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The Future of Management

Author: Gary Hamel

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/01/2008


Synopsis

What really fuels long-term business success?

Not operational excellence or new business models, but management innovation: new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and building strategies. Over the past century, breakthroughs in the "technology of management" have enabled a few companies, including General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, and Visa, to cross new performance thresholds and build long-term advantages. Yet most companies lack a disciplined process for radical management innovation.

World renowned business sage Gary Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model, centered on control and efficiency, no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. In his most provocative book to date, Hamel takes aim at the legacy beliefs preventing 21st-century companies from surmounting new challenges. With incisive analysis and vivid illustrations, he explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator, and reveals:

The make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of head-snapping change

The toxic effects of our legacy-management beliefs

The unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in a handful of pioneering organizations

The new principles every company must weave into its management DNA

The Web's potential to obliterate smokestack management practices

The actions your company can take now to build its own management advantage

Get ready to throw off the shackles of yesterday's management dogma. Tomorrow's winners will be those companies that start inventing the future of management today.

Reviews

Goodreads review by kareem on January 19, 2009

this is the best practical book on how management is changing and how you can be waaay ahead of the curve. read it, or my notes for an idea of what it's about. the book has a lot more practical advice about innovating your management processes regardless of whether you're running your own company or......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on November 19, 2014

Hamel tackles a rather difficult and exciting topic: "Right now, your company has 21st-century, Internet-enabled business processes, mid-20th-century management processes, all built atop 19th-century managment principles." In other words, the assessment he makes on today's views on management is tha......more

Goodreads review by Adam on March 18, 2012

This book argues that management had its last major dose of innovation around the time the discipline was created, around 100 years ago. It supports this partially with detailed profiles of three successful companies with unique approaches to management: Whole Foods, W.L. Gore, and Google. From the i......more

Goodreads review by Zeke on October 31, 2020

So so. It’s a review of the management style of Whole Foods, Gore (of GoreTex fame) and Google from 2007. The key idea is pushing authority down to the workers. I can get behind that. That said, given that Google hasn’t been that successful outside of their core business (which is an incredible oil d......more

Goodreads review by Rob on November 15, 2012

The author Gary Hamel mixes real-world examples of management innovation with a compelling vision and business case of why management discipline is overdue for a reinvention! My view of management innovation is on a current lack of "quality of social relationship metrics" on the balance sheet or in......more