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The Future of Management Kindle Edition

by Gary Hamel (Author), Bill Breen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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—centered 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.”
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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Though this authoritative examination of today's static corporate management systems reads like a business school treatise, it isn't the same-old thing. Hamel, a well-known business thinker and author (Leading the Revolution), advocates that dogma be rooted out and a new future be imagined and invented. To aid managers and leaders on this mission, Hamel offers case studies and measured analysis of management innovators like Google and W.L. Gore (makers of Gore-Tex), then lists lessons that can be drawn from them. He doesn't gloss over how difficult it will be to reinvent management, comparing the new and needed shift in thinking to Darwin's abandoning creationist traditions and physicists who had to look beyond Newton's clockwork laws to discover quantum mechanics. But the steps needed to make such a profound shift aren't clearly outlined here either. The book serves primarily as an invitation to shed age-old systems and processes and think differently. There's little humor and few punchy catchphrases—the book has less sparkle than Jeffrey Pfeffer's What Were They Thinking?—but its content will likely appeal to managers accustomed to b-school textbooks and tired of gimmicky business evangelism. (Oct.)
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"There's much here that will resonate with forward-thinking managers."

-- "BusinessWeek"

"If companies now innovate by creating new products or new business models...why can t they do the same in how they manage organizations?"

-- "New York Times"

"Like many great inventions, management practices have a shelf life...Gary Hamel explains how to jettison the weak ones and embrace the ones that work."

-- "Fortune "

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004OC07OE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press; 1st edition (October 9, 2007)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 9, 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 815 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
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    Gary Hamel is on the faculty of the London Business School and is a cofounder of the Management Lab, an organization that builds technology and tools to support breakthrough management innovation. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the world's most influential business thinker, Professor Hamel’s landmark books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. They include The Future of Management and What Matters Now. Learn more at GaryHamel.com and, to find out about Gary's newest book, visit Humanocracy.com.

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Dr.Lew
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for the all citizens of the world
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2007
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This is one of the best books I have read period. The theory, examples, and suggestions laid out in the book are priceless, and it has certainly motivated me to try to change the organization I work for. We are still working under the early 20th century management philosophy for the most part by running under a hierarchical organizational structure. Even though the company encourages innovation to come from every single employee in the company, there is no systemic approach to capture and use the ideas generated by the employees. Moreover, the decisions still are being made by the top few, and there is not much flexibilty in what one is allowed to do for the benefit of the company. The communication also has been poor in that not all data is available to the public within the organization.

FYI, the organization I work for is GE, known to be one of the front runners in management innovation. Having worked in many other companies, I know we do better than most companies out there in areas I described above, but compared to Google, W.L. Gore, and other companies cited as model examples in the book - let's just say we have a lot of catch up to do.

Anyway, I recommend this book to any manager, employee, anybody who is part of any organization to read this book. I am even using the lessons learned here in my Condominium Board!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Top shelf - and timeless
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2023
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This book is one of the most inspiring management books I've ever read. Thought provoking, real stories, insightful themes.
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Viriya Taecharungroj
4.0 out of 5 stars Six Elements Review - 7.3/10
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2008
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"Why does management seem stuck in a time warp? Perhaps it's because we've reached the end of management."

Content

Part I: Why Management Innovation Matters; in this part, the author stated the problems we face with the current modern management and how can the new management have the "Ultimate Advantage" over the current management.

Part II: Management Innovation in Action; the authors demontrated examples of Whole Foods, W. L. Gore, and Google and how their "Management Innovation" shapes their management philosophies.

Part III: Imagining the Future of Management: in this part the authors showed how we can escape the orthodox management practices and embrace the new principles including Life, Markets, Democracy, Faith, and Cities while overcoming difficult challenges that we are going to face.

Part IV:Building the Future of Management: this part tells us how can we learn the lessons from IBM and Best Buy along with how can we put the beliefs we demonstrated earlier into practices.

Review Method: The score will show how close this book is to the ideal: A business book which is easy to read, distinct, credible, practical, insightful, and provides great reading experience.

Ease of Understanding: 7/10: The Future of Management is a book with a straightforward structure, there are examples followed by the related principles of Life, Markets, Democracy, Faith, and Cities that define the new management. And the conclusion and the "idea" on how to implement them are clear but we couln't say this is the easiest read because of the abstractness of the ideas.

Distinction: 9/10: To be perfectly honest, there are many books on the so-called "future" already, we already talked about Google and the idea of flat organisation is not new. The reason that I give The Future of Management a near-perfect score on distinction is how the book uses some wise definitions of management, Part III, which are stunning. I never thought of comparing an organisation and management to "cities" together with "life", "faith", "democracy", and "markets".

Credibility: 8/10: Gary Hamel and Bill Breen did well linking the examples of Whole Foods, W. L. Gore, and Google to their ideas on how the organisation should, and would be. The linkage and references are solid making us believe that this is probably the way " new management" will be.

Practicality: 3/10: No one will disagree with me on this, this is not Management Guide for Dummies, we know it, the authors know it. The authors stated that they do not know how to achieve this but this is a book that will inspire us on how to invent the future of management.

Insight: 8/10: Very insightful, examples of companies are packed with examples of practices that are thought-provoking. New principles are not loosely described but with solid ideas.

Reading Experience: 9/10: You'll find reading this book is like a journey. It is not futuristic like watching Star Wars but more like watching the Matrix trilogy! The authors portray the current modern management and then "unplugged" you to the new world that you have never imagined. For orthodox managers, you will feel like watching "28 Days (Weeks) Later" where out of nowhere, there are flocks after flocks of zombies (future employees) chasing after you! Beware.

Overall: 7.3/10: excluding "practicality", I'd say The Future of Management is more than 8/10. If you want a book packed with remarkable management examples and motivating ideas on how the future will be without much concern on practicality of ideas; The Future of Management by Gary Hamel and Bill Breen is a safe bet.

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MarkR
5.0 out of 5 stars Great. Asks the right questions.
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016
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Great book. This will appeal both to people who are just beginning to learn about newer management structures and people who are already familiar with them, because the author includes a lot of the basics, and asks the right questions. For some who accept the concepts quickly, it may contain too much convincing that a new management structure is needed. For others, the convincing is a critical part, because they may not understand why it's needed. After getting through those, the insights become deeper, and include some great examples. (For those who like this, you may greatly appreciate a book that goes into lots of detail and examples: Reinventing Organizations.)

This has great information that can be applied in either traditional organizations or more progressive (in structure and methods of leadership) so should be read by anyone interested in impacting their organization.
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Albert Ponsa
3.0 out of 5 stars High expectations, low explanations
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2008
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When you buy a book named "the future of management" your expectations about the thoughts inside are high. And what is more, if the book is written by one of the most renamed investigators in the world, the expectation is even higher...

I think this book is written for your airplane trips, or for your holidays readings. I mean, there are no so deep-through insights that requires you to deep-thinking...

In the other hand, I agree that there are a few points that Hamel tries to explain pretty well: what's the only way to survive for the organizations, what's the role of innovation, and how management can interact with all the shareholders of the corporation. The author uses some enterprises (for example, Google) to explain how they are using innovation as a strategic option to differentiate. At the end of the book he exposes a summary to implententing a innovation focused strategy.

It's a good book for an easy reading, but not a good one for those who want a deep looking into the field.
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Kafka's Crow
5.0 out of 5 stars employee empowerment is not just a pretty concept any more
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2018
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Can't believe this book is more than a decade old now. I read it very long time ago, re-read it before discussing it with my second line manager a few years back and he seemed intrigued, bought him a copy which he read but tried to wriggle out saying that we were too large an organisation to implement Gary Hamel's vision of less management and more empowerment on the shop-floor. With more that 125k employees, we ARE a large FTSE 100 organisation with deeply entrenched management culture going back centuries. I've been trying to fight the lone battle for humanising a highly automated workplace in my local office (1600 employees), mostly unsuccessfully, for 15 years now. Still nothing is stronger than the idea whose time has come. With wider availability of information, employee empowerment is not just a pretty concept any more. The future of management is here. Those who don't listen to employees' concerns would end up in courts or would go down because of low productivity and high absenteeism. Information is empowering employees with knowledge about their rights, HR procedures and networked employee communities.Hamel warned them a decade ago, they had all this time to change. Now they don't know what to do, powerless like rabbits caught up in headlights. Small management, more employee empowerment is the future. Very soon free-speech will enter the workplace encouraged by various social networking platforms. Businesses worldwide treasure their reputation. No business wants to be known as a bastion of draconian management practices. Reputations are easy and cheap to build, even easier to destroy. A different kind of vigilance is required in this day and age and it can't be achieved without full, voluntary, even willing employee co-operation. The future of management is moving towards the hands of the employees and this is a beautiful sight.
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Christine :
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice read.
Reviewed in Canada on January 14, 2013
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Interesting book. Makes you look at Management from a different, unusual angle. Would recommend to HR peoples and managers that are looking to do thing differently with their team.
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Frank Wohlrab
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein hervorragandes Buch, zukuntsweisend, insprierend
Reviewed in Germany on June 26, 2013
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Dieses Buch ist ein absolutes Muss für jeden der eine Firma aufbauen oder leiten will.
Es steigert die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, zeigt neue Wege auf und inspriert zum Umdenken, zum Verlassen von ausgetretenen Pfaden.
Sehr sehr gut!
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Cédric E.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent livre sur le management participatif
Reviewed in France on December 16, 2012
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Un excellent ouvrage de Gary Hamel sur le management participatif avec des exemples concrets de réussites. À recommander à ceux qui s'intéressent aux questions d'évolution des organisation.
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tetsuya morikawa
5.0 out of 5 stars マネジメント(経営管理)の方法論そのものに関するイノベーションの必要性を論じた意欲作
Reviewed in Japan on December 15, 2007
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過去100年くらいの間に、テクノロジーが非常に大きな進歩・発展を遂げたことは周知の事実であるが、さて、マネジメントの方法論については同様に大きなイノベーションはあっただろうか？著者によれば、20世紀初頭のF.W.テイラーの科学的管理法とM.ウェーバーの官僚組織のコンセプトは、(それ以前には存在しなかった)大企業のマネジメントを可能にしたという意味で大きなイノベーションであったが、それ以降は、同じようなレベルのイノベーションは起こっていない。また、我々が今日でも依然として1世紀前と同様の経営諸課題に頭を悩ましているという事実は、技術革新の進歩の度合いと比較すると、マネジメントにこそイノベーションが必要であることは明らかであると主張する。そして、Whole Foods Market, W.L. Gore (ゴアテックス・ブランドの製造メーカー), Googleという革新的なマネジメントを実践する3社を例示しつつ、将来のマネジメント手法とは如何なるものなのかを論じる。
マネジメントに関する既成の固定観念を前提の部分から疑ってみることでイノベーションの本質に迫ることの大切さを強調し、如何に従業員を解き放ちベスト･パフォーマンスと創意工夫を継続的・持続的に引き出し(Making innovation everyone’s job, everyday.)、且つ同時に自発的なコミットメントと規律の効いた組織にできるか？(即ち、マネジメントのイノベーションとはマネージする事を減らすこと) がひとつの重要なポイントであり、これこそが真の持続的な競争優位の源泉と為り得る要素である説く。
著者自身も断っている通り、本書は将来のマネジメント手法の進化に関する明確な姿や解答を提供するのではなく、マネジメント手法のブレークスルーを起こすべく、考えるきっかけや材料を提供することを目的に書かれた本である。非常に意欲的で刺激的な内容である。
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