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.
Table of Contents
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
288 pages, Hardcover
