The Future of Management | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gary Hamel, Bill Breen
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1422102505
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781422102503
ASIN: 1422102505
Publication Date: October 9, 2007
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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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 There is a problem in Management! June 16, 2008
Organizations are top heavy. Something needs to be done about it. The future of management is about giving everyone the opportunity to say, "This is not going to happen anymore". Be brave and make change in your organization.
The Future is What You Will Make It June 16, 2008
This is an interesting book. While the title says "The Future of Management," the book is about more than just management. It is also about change, change as it impacts an organization's development and resilience/adaptability. This book uses a wide ranging definition of management and management processes.
In today's Web 2.0 environment, Gary Hamel argues that our current command - control type of management practices are actually toxic to organizational success and excellence. Hamel argues that what is needed today is management innovation or Management 2.0. He sees management innovation being needed in the areas of managing talent, allocating resources, organization structural design and the building of operational strategies.
If you are looking for a prescriptive answer to future of management, this book is not for you. Rather than offer his own prescription, Hamel has chosen instead to offer the reader/manager a series of questions throughout the book. Questions designed to help you, the reader, think about the type of management innovations needed within your own organization. Questions designed to help you mold your thinking about the management philosophy and practices you can use within your organization to successfully compete and thrive in the future.
If there is a fault with the book, I would say it lies in the examples Hamel uses to illustrate his key points. I wish he had used more examples (if they even exist) from the more traditional, hierarchical, bureaucratic type organizations in existence today, rather than those organizations specifically created from the beginning as innovative type organizations.
Want a Competitive Edge? Change Your Management June 13, 2008
Hamel makes a compelling argument in pointing out the lack of innovation that has occurred to our fundamental management principles constructed well over half a century ago. While technology and the speed of business have rapidly changed in the past fifty years, the way companies are organized and managed has not. This is problematic because, like with anything else, there must be change and innovation for companies to continue to be successful. The book points out several examples of top companies that have redefined the role of management in the twenty-first century. Companies such as W.L. Gore, Google and Whole Foods have taken untraditional management approaches and have turned them into money-making endeavors. The practices of each of these companies should be a template for tailoring a new management style for any company in any industry.
This book is relevant because there is no loyalty anymore, especially among the younger generations that grew up with the Internet. On the Internet, no hierarchies exist, capability and not titles matter and everyone has a voice and is free to define themselves. In short, Hamel argues that management 2.0 looks a lot like web 2.0 where people voluntary choose how to spend their time and change the world in doing so. I have to agree. The days of the successful company filled with subservient employees commuting to work to be neither asked nor expected to contribute any new ideas, let alone innovate, are over given that the same employee is free to post his own thoughts online, comment on the millions of blogs out there and voluntarily add to open source projects in his free time. Companies that want a competitive edge in the years to come must understand this. Let's hope this book is widely read and that the lightbulb goes on for many of the bureaucrats out there still stuck in management 1.0.
 Get rid of age-old systems and processes and think differently June 3, 2008
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"The Future of Management", a book on management innovation, is a sequel to "Leading the Revolution", my favorite title by Gary Hamel, a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm, and a visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School. Gary Hamel is the originator (with C. K. Prahalad) of the concept of core competencies, introduced in a 1990 Harvard Business Review article. Core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions: It provides consumer benefits; It is not easy for competitors to imitate; It can be leveraged widely to many products and markets.
In "The Future of Management" the author claims that he doesn't provide easy answer. He makes tough questions instead. The book serves primarily as an invitation to shed age-old systems and processes and think differently. I like this style of writing very much. I can recommend "Leadership without easy answers" by Ronald Heifetz in addition to this book.
"The Future of Management" has recently become available in audio format. I highly recommend the audio version of this book.
Absolutely sensational May 8, 2008
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If you are ready for this book as a manager, it will change your life, your management style and the view of those that work with you, and the success of your organisation. If you do not "get" what Hamel is saying, then you will continue to struggle with the uninspiring hierarchically based management style that permeates our organisations.
People should be able to get up of a morning and be excited about going to work. If your employees are not, then it is your fault as a manager - fix it. This book tells you how.
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