The Future of Management

by Gary Hamel

About the book

What drives a company's long-term success? Management innovation—new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and devising strategies—not operational excellence, technological breakthroughs, or new company models. Management innovation has enabled firms to achieve new levels of performance and develop long-term advantages throughout history.

 

Gary Hamel argues in The Future of Management that firms now more than ever require management innovation. Why? In a world where adaptation and creativity drive company success, the management paradigm of the previous century—centered on control and efficiency—no longer suffices. Companies must reinvent management in order to succeed in the future.

 

Hamel reveals how to transform your business into a serial management innovator, including:

• In an age of constant, head-snapping change, the make-or-break difficulties that will decide competitive success.
  Traditional management principles have negative consequences.
• In "modern management pioneers," unusual management methods are yielding breakthrough achievements.
• The revolutionary principles that must become ingrained in every company's "management DNA."
• The steps your business can take right now to improve its "management edge."

 

The Future of Management is a practical and insightful book with examples from Google, W.L. Gore, Whole Foods, IBM, Samsung, Best Buy, and other blue-ribbon management innovators.

About the Author

Gary Hamel is a co-founder of the Management Lab, an organization that develops technology and tools to assist breakthrough management innovation. He is a member of the London Business School faculty. Professor Hamel's groundbreaking works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and he has been hailed as the world's most important business thinker by the Wall Street Journal. The Future of Management and What Matters Now are two of them. Visit GaryHamel.com for more information, and Humanocracy.com for information on Gary's newest book.

Get the book