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 - centred 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'; and, 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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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Worst internet service I've ever consumed:
I've tried twice to buy this book at Amazon and I didn't received, however the money was taken from my account.
Six Elements Review - 7.3/10:
"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... more info
Philosophical. Inspiring. Great for top management who think they dont need it:
Key story line: Management innovation is the only long term sure-fire strategy for a business, whereas Whole Foods, WL Gore and Google are elaborated as role models to pitch the author's ideology of the perfect business organisation, which is like the internet: democratic, tightly connected and flat. I am not qualified to comment on the value and practicality of the author's ideas. However, I am obliged to say that this is an inspiring and insightful book that outstands itself from the tons of its genre... more info
Absolultely Inspiring:
I just finished Gary Hamel's latest book, The Future of Management. It is absolutely the most inspiring business book I have ever read. Hamel accurately makes the case that management theory has hardly evolved in the past 50 years. There are plenty of reasons why, but the heart of the problem is that restructuring the organization must go through senior executives who are (a) afraid of change, (b) unfamiliar with innovative approaches, and (c) unwilling to relinquish the command and control power they have... more info
