Michele Zanini

Gary Hamel

Our organizations are failing us. They're sluggish, change-phobic, and emotionally arid. Human beings, by contrast, are adaptable, creative, and full of passion. This gap between individual and organizational capability is the unfortunate by-product of bureaucracy--the top-down, rule-choked management structure that undergirds virtually every organization on the planet. Invented in the nineteenth century with the goal of turning people into semi-programmable robots, bureaucracy is deeply dehumanizing. Today, only 13 percent of employees around the world are fully engaged in their work. The rest show up physically but leave much of their enthusiasm and ingenuity at home--hardly surprising given the tendency of bureaucrats to regard human beings as mere "resources." By the authors' reckoning, bureaucracy costs the global economy more than $9 trillion in lost economic output each year. Worse, despite all the hype around flat organizations and agile processes, bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. In their provocative and practical new book, world-renowned business thinker Gary Hamel and expert coauthor Michele Zanini lay out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are fully human and free from the shackles of bureaucracy. Few leaders would admit to being champions of bureaucracy, but rarer still is the leader who has a plan for defeating it. Essential elements include: Calculating the hidden costs of "bureausclerosis" Ridding ourselves of toxic bureaucratic beliefs Drawing lessons from organizations that have excised bureaucracy Uprooting bureaucratic structures and processes while avoiding operational chaos Overcoming the resistance of those inclined to defend bureaucracy Learning to lead in an environment in which position and rank are no longer the keys to the kingdom The ultimate goal: organizations that are infused with the spirit of entrepreneurship, where everyone thinks like an owner, and game-changing innovation is the rule rather than the exception. Humanocracy brims with illuminating insights, real-world stories, and powerful tools. Both manifesto and manual, it shows you how to build an organization that's fit for the future by building one that's fit for human beings.

Creating Organizations As Amazing As the People Inside Them

Humanocracy

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.

Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

Bill Breen

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.

The Future of Management

C. K. Prahalad

New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking has already engendered a new language of strategy. In this book, they develop a coherent model for how today's executives can identify and accomplish no less than heroic goals in tomorrow's marketplace. Their masterful blueprint addresses how executives can ease the tension between competing today and clearing a path toward leadership in the future.

Competing for the Future

Christian Stadler

Kurt Matzler

Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen

Julia Hautz

Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite

Open Strategy

Urges managers of traditional companies to implement e-commerce and participate in joint ventures, providing examples of small and large companies that changed their missions and business conduct for the better.

How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life

Leading the Revolution

This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-pagedissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's anagenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world ofdiminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual forpeople who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's animpassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—torethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism,organizational life, and the meaning of work. Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented is thenorm. Wherever one looks, one sees the exceptional and theextraordinary: Business newspapers decrying the state of capitalism. Once-innovative companies struggling to save offsenescence. Next gen employees shunning blue chips for socialstart-ups. Corporate miscreants getting pilloried in the blogosphere. Entry barriers tumbling in what were once oligopolisticstrongholds. Hundred year-old business models being rendered irrelevantovernight. Newbie organizations crowdsourcing their most creativework. National governments lurching towards bankruptcy. Investors angrily confronting greedy CEOs and complacentboards. Newly omnipotent customers eagerly wielding their power. Social media dramatically transforming the way human beingsconnect, learn and collaborate. Obviously, there are lots of things that matter now. But in aworld of fractured certainties and battered trust, some thingsmatter more than others. While the challenges facing organizationsare limitless; leadership bandwidth isn't. That's why you have tobe clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental,make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organizationthrives or dives in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five issuesare that are paramount: values, innovation, adaptability, passionand ideology. In doing so he presents an essential agenda forleaders everywhere who are eager to... move from defense to offense reverse the tide of commoditization defeat bureaucracy astonish their customers foster extraordinary contribution capture the moral high ground outrun change build a company that's truly fit for the future Concise and to the point, the book will inspire you to rethinkyour business, your company and how you lead.

How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

What Matters Now

"Critical insight from the man Fortune called "the world's leading expert on business strategy"About the only thing a leader can be sure of is that what worked yesterday is unlikely to work today, let alone tomorrow. Never before have businesses faced a more fractured, contentious and dynamic environment. If ever there was a need for fundamentally new thinking about values, competition, leadership, organization talent, and how these things are directly tied to management, it is now. Gary Hamel lays out an essential agenda in a world where old nostrums aren't merely useless, but downright toxic.  Contains more than 25 standalone chapters in six sections that are brutally honest and tackle critical management and leadership challenges head-on  Explains how to move from defense to offense, reverse the tide of commoditization, and outrun change  Tackles how to effectively hack management, capture the moral high ground, and foster extraordinary contribution  Written by one of the world's most prescient management experts and the acclaimed author of The Future of Management  Concise and to the point, What Matters Now will inspire leaders to rethink their business, their management, and how they lead"--

how to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation

What matters now

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Das revolutionäre Unternehmen. Wer Regeln bricht

In this McKinsey Award-winning article, first published in May 1989, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad explain that Western companies have wasted too much time and energy replicating the cost and quality advantages their global competitors already experience. Canon and other world-class competitors have taken a different approach to strategy: one of strategic intent. They begin with a goal that exceeds the company's present grasp and existing resources: "Beat Xerox"; "encircle Caterpillar." Then they rally the organization to close the gap by setting challenges that focus employees' efforts in the near to medium term: "Build a personal copier to sell for $1,000"; "cut product development time by 75%." Year after year, they emphasize competitive innovation--building a portfolio of competitive advantages; searching markets for "loose bricks" that rivals have left underdefended; changing the terms of competitive engagement to avoid playing by the leader's rules. The result is a global leadership position and an approach to competition that has reduced larger, stronger Western rivals to playing an endless game of catch-up.

Strategic Intent

Fully revised with a new introduction, this book provides an action plan for any company or individual intent on becoming and staying an industry revolutionary. Hamel argues that the fundamental challenge companies face is reinventing themselves and their industries, not just in times of crisis - but continually. Based on an extensive study of "gray-haired revolutionaries," including Charles Schwab, Cisco, Virgin, UPS, Semex, and GE Capital, Leading the Revolution shows how companies can continue to grow and thrive, even in ever-changing turbulent world markets. Distinctive features and benefits to readers: explains the underlying principles of radical innovation; explores where revolutionary new business concepts come from; identifies the key design criteria for building companies that are activist-friendly and revolution-ready; and details the steps your company must take to make innovation an enduring capability. Packed with insight and practical advice, Leading the Revolution shows you how to: get off the treadmill of incrementalism; save your company from becoming a "one-vision wonder"; harness the imagination and passion of every employee; and create vibrant internal markets for ideas, capital, and talent.

En un mundo de cambios incesantes y retos nunca vistos, necesitamos organizaciones que sean resilientes y audaces. Por desgracia, la mayoría de las organizaciones, sobrecargadas de burocracia, son lentas y rígidas. En una época de transformaciones, las estructuras de poder descendentes y las normas de lossistemas de gestión son un lastre: limitan la creatividad y frenan la iniciativa. Como líderes, empleados, inversores y ciudadanos que somos, nos merecemos algo mejor. Necesitamos organizaciones que sea audaces, emprendedoras y tan ágiles como el propio cambio. Esta es la razón de este libro. En Humanocracia, Gary Hamel y Michele Zanini ofrecen una apasionada explicación basada endatos de por qué se ha de acabar con la burocracia y sustituirla por algo mejor. Humanocracia, un libro basado en más de una década de investigación y lleno de ejemplos prácticos, expone un plan perfectamente detallado para crear organizaciones que sean tan inspiradoras e ingeniosas como los seres humanos que las componen.

Creando organizaciones tan extraordinarias como las personas que las integran

Humanocracia

No es la excelencia operativa ni los nuevos modelos de negocios, sino la innovación en las técnicas de management: nuevas formas de movilizar el talento, asignar los recursos y desarrollar estrategias. A lo largo del siglo pasado, los avances en la «tecnología del management» han permitido a diversas compañías —entre las que figuran General Electric, Procter % Gamble, Toyota y Visa— cruzar los nuevos umbrales del éxito y lograr posicionarse como líderes en su sector a largo plazo. No obstante, la mayoría de las empresas carecen de un proceso disciplinado para llevar a cabo una innovación radical en el management. En su libro más provocador hasta la fecha, Hamel carga contra las creencias heredadas que impiden a las empresas del siglo XXI superar los nuevos retos. Con un análisis incisivo y ejemplos muy ilustrativos, Hamel explica cómo convertir cualquier compañía en una maquinaria innovadora. Prepárese para romper con el pasado. Las empresas que conquistarán el mañana serán aquéllas que empiecen a inventar el futuro del management hoy.

El futuro del management

Harvard University. Harvard Business Review

The Core Competence of the Corporation

Valori, innovazione, adattabilità, passione e ideologia: queste, secondo Gary Hamel, riconosciuta autorità mondiale in tema di strategia, sono le cose che contano per le imprese di oggi e di domani, alla luce della dura lezione della crisi. Il libro, che è ad un tempo una "chiamata" per chi è pronto a ripensare i fondamenti del capitalismo e un'"agenda" per organizzazioni che vogliono prosperare in un mondo di speranze ridotte, distilla in 25 capitoli diretti ed essenziali tutti i principali temi del management - etica, competizione, leadership, organizzazione, talento eccetera - ribaltando le passate credenze e le prassi consolidate e fornendo elementi per il pur difficile cambiamento. Un'analisi franca ai limiti del brutale dello stato delle imprese oggi, avvalorata da molti richiami alla cronaca economica, aneddoti e trend del momento. Un testo di riferimento - già tradotto in 17 lingue - per tutte le organizzazioni che vogliono cercare di sopravvivere alla congiuntura negativa.

25 strategie per tempi difficili

Das Buch des Managementvordenkers Gary Hamel ist kein einfacher Business-Ratgeber, sondern eine Agenda für Unternehmen und deren Wachstum in einer Welt mit weniger Hoffnung, härterem Wettbewerb und unerbittlichen Veränderungen. Es ist ein Appell dafür, Management neu zu denken und neu zu erfinden. Ziel soll es sein, fundamental und tiefgehend unsere Annahmen über Kapitalismus, organisationales Leben und die Bedeutung von Arbeit neu zu denken. Während die Veränderungen, denen sich Unternehmen gegenübersehen, grenzenlos sind, hat Leadership/Führung eine limitierte Brandbreite. Man muss sich also auf das Wesentliche, das, was wirklich zählt, fokussieren - und zwar heute und jetzt. Was sind die entscheidenden Punkte, die über das Überleben von Unternehmen in den folgenden Jahren entscheidend? Hamel identifiziert hier 5 Punkte: - Values: Wir brauchen eine moralische Renaissance im Business. - Innovation: Nachdem wir jahrelang von Innovationen geredet haben, ist es Zeit diese zu schaffen. Sie sind die einzige Strategie, die langfristig wertschaffend sein wird. - Adaptability: In den meisten Organisationen richten sich alle an der Vergangenheit aus, anstatt an der Zukunft. Erfolg muss immer wieder neu erfunden und proaktiv Veränderungen herbeigeführt werden, deswegen ist Anpassungsfähigkeit (Flexibilität) so wichtig. - Passion: Nur mit Leidenschaft gelingen Innovationen und der Wille zum Wandel ist möglich. Kunden erwarten das Außergewöhnliche. - Ideology: Wir brauchen bessere Geschäftsprinzipien, die uns leiten. Kontrolle allein reicht nicht. Jede Führungskraft, die diese Punkte verfolgt, schafft es zum Beispiel: - sich von der Defensive zur Offensive zu bewegen. - sich aus der Masse hervorzuheben, als Organisation und mit seinen Produkten. - Bürokratie zu bekämpfen. - die Kunden zu erstaunen und zu begeistern. - ein moralisch höheres Level zu erreichen. - ein Unternehmen zu bilden, das fit für die Zukunft ist.

Erfolgreich in Zeiten kompromisslosen Wandels, brutalen Wettbewerbs und unaufhaltsamer Innovation

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Unternehmensführung im 21. Jahrhundert

Das Ende des Managements

Harvard Business Review

Clayton M. Christensen

Roger L. Martin

Angela L. Duckworth

Build resilience in your company to weather the greatest crises. If you read nothing else on organizational resilience, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company prepare for and overcome disruption, social upheaval, and disaster. This book will inspire you to: Reposition your core business while launching a separate, disruptive business Build the ability to continually anticipate and adjust to emerging trends Prepare for the business implications of climate change Learn about the risks of hyperefficient businesses Develop organizational grit Rebound from a recession faster than your competitors Lead your company through any kind of crisis This collection of articles includes "How Resilience Works" by Diane Coutu; "The Quest for Resilience" by Gary Hamel and Liisa Valikangas; "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" by Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen; "Organizational Grit" by Thomas H. Lee and Angela L. Duckworth; "Leading in Times of Trauma" by Jane E. Dutton, Peter J. Frost, Monica C. Worline, Jacoba M. Lilius, and Jason M. Kanov; "Learning from the Future" by J. Peter Scoblic; "Leading a New Era of Climate Action" by Andrew Winston; "The High Price of Efficiency" by Roger L. Martin; "Reigniting Growth" by Chris Zook and James Allen; "Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World" by Willy C. Shih; and "Roaring Out of Recession" by Ranjay Gulati, Nitin Nohria, and Franz Wohlgezogen. HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

Gary Hamel

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