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Gary Hamel

Author of Competing for the Future

25+ Works 1,393 Members 12 Reviews

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Gary Hamel is a Founder and Chairman of Strategos, and Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School. He lives in Woodside, California.

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Image credit: Interview of Eric Schmidt by Gary Hamel at the MLab dinner tonight. Google's Marissa Mayer and Hal Varian also joined the open dialog about Google's culture and management style, from chaos to arrogance. The video just went up on YouTube. It's quite entertaining. By Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA - Party Line Dance, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7852247

Works by Gary Hamel

Competing for the Future (1994) 498 copies
The Future of Management (2007) 347 copies
Leading the Revolution (2000) 300 copies
Strategic Intent (2010) 17 copies
Liderando a Revolução (2000) 8 copies
Humanocratie (2021) 2 copies
El Futuro Del Management (2008) 2 copies

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In less than a dozen pages he lays out his criticism of the current system, and the values needed to improve it. I am impressed - I didn't need to wade through a bunch of fluff to get to his thesis.

Hamel observes that there is little agreement on which companies are the greatest innovators. He divides innovators up into 5 categories - Rockets (which probably won't be on the list next year), Laureates, Artistes, Cyborgs (Google, Amazon, Apple), and Born-Again Innovators (P&G, IBM, Ford). Apples long stream of commanding a price premium gets at least one chapter.

Two companies with very flat structure are profiled, W.L. Gore and Associates is one, another is Morning Star. In both companies, people are motivated to do good work, make good decisions, exercise initiative and be creative. Another company HCL (a company in India) also gets a chapter for Vineet Nayar’s effort to change from a bureaucratic company to one focused on the front line.

The book is divided into 5 sections:

Section 1: Value Matters Now
Section 2: Innovation Matters Now
Section 3: Adaptability Matters Now
Section 4: Passion Matters Now
Section 5: Ideology Matters Now
Followed by Appendix, Notes, Acknowledgments, About the Author and an Index.
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bread2u | Jul 1, 2020 |
Management, Hamel G
 
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LOM-Lausanne | 4 other reviews | Mar 12, 2020 |
How to think like an entrepreneurial non-profit. I have not see any other book re non-profit management & leadership that is this helpful to explore how to expand your current "business" and to create new and additional programs/services.
 
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KyCharlie | 4 other reviews | Apr 3, 2017 |
Has some interesting points about business innovation and development of corporate culture. But really loses the plot when it delves extensively into how Enron was the company that was setting the tone for the future of the corporate business model. Many of the included Enron stories and quotes are now so outrageous in hindsight, that it's hard to read the book without shaking your head. Even the benefit of hindsight doesn't explain away these failings, as many people quite understandably couldn't understand how the Enron model was working at the time, or quite where they found their "moral outrage" at how government meddling in the energy business was detrimental to society at large!… (more)
 
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