Gary Hamel
Author of Competing for the Future
About the Author
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.
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
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation (1993) 91 copies
The first fifty 1 copy
Humanocracia (Humanocracy, Spanish Edition): Creando organizaciones tan increíbles como las personas que las componen (2022) 1 copy
Humanocracia - eBook 1 copy
Strategie als revolutie 1 copy
Associated Works
Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control and Complexity, Leadership, Markets, and… (1993) — Contributor — 116 copies
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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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