The Future of Management »

Gary Hamel has been on the faculty of the LondonBusinessSchool since 1983, where he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management. He is also the founder of Strategos, a consulting company that has trained tens of thousands of individuals around the world.

Hamel received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has held faculty appointments at the U. of M. and HarvardBusinessSchool. He is a fellow of the World Economic Forum and serves on the editorial board of the Strategic Management Journal. Hamel lives in Northern California.

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.

BusinessWeek

There's much here that will resonate with forward-thinking managers.

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Why Management Innovation Matters
The End of Management?     3
The Ultimate Advantage     19
An Agenda for Management Innovation     37
Management Innovation in Action
Creating a Community of Purpose     69
Building an Innovation Democracy     83
Aiming for an Evolutionary Advantage     101
Imagining the Future of Management
Escaping the Shackles     125
Embracing New Principles     147
Learning from the Fringe     185
Building the Future, of Management
Becoming a Management Innovator     215
Building the Future of Management     241
Notes     257
Index     265
About the Author     271