The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

Sadly there have been all too many stories of companies that have responded poorly during this most challenging of times, disabusing the faith employees have in them. Employee wellbeing. At a time when people are relying on their employers for reassurance and support, many have been cast into the wilderness to fend for themselves.

Hamel 99

Hamel Leadership Supply Chain Tourism 99

Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2012

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. I asked Gary what leadership behaviors have the most impact on organizations. Gary took a swing at the reason we don’t put a ding in the [.].

Hamel 214

Hamel Organization Leadership Company 214

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not need – buy the book). Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital. Kodak knew film.

Intellectual Capital 122

Intellectual Capital Depreciation Hamel Film 122

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not needed – buy the book). Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital.

Intellectual Capital 68

Intellectual Capital Depreciation Hamel Film 68

Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2012

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. I asked Gary what leadership behaviors have the most impact on organizations. Gary took a swing at the reason we don’t put a ding in the [.].

Hamel 104

Hamel Organization Leadership Company 104

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

They're outdated management models. Organizations are being pummeled by rapid change, unconventional rivals from around the globe, and demands to become more innovative, more agile, and more responsive to both customers and employees. According to Gary Hamel, it's your management model. Next, challenge orthodoxies.

Hamel 9

Hamel Webinar Management Agility 9

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2011

The report is also a good resource for anyone in a management role looking to assess and further develop their own leadership skills. The five most critical skills for leaders are (in rank order): Driving and managing change. Fostering creativity and innovation. Coaching from managers (68/63).

Globalization 49

Globalization Hamel Leadership Strategic Planning 49

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Like many professors I mix my time between teaching, consulting with companies, and then doing my research, which of course is the real reason I got into it in the first place. And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future.

Competitive Advantage 121

Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. For almost 100 years, management has been associated with the five basic functions outlined by management theorist Henri Fayol: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.

Fayol 15

Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

Hamel 15

Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

There are so many different ways that leaders can build creating a positive company culture. The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. If so, how? What tough trade-offs do we never get right?

Positioning 78

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR''s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We''ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR’s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We’ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Innovation Isn’t an Idea Problem.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Randy shares: “ Relationships between management and labor often have an inherent level of distrust. Robyn summarizes: “While training and policies are important, in the end, it comes down to individual leaders modeling the right behavior and holding other leaders and managers accountable for doing the same.” Development.

Leadership Development 373

Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 373

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

There are so many different ways that leaders can build creating positive company culture. The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. Strategy/Management (Sell different). If so, how?

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Bureaucracy is destroying value in innumerable ways, including slowing problem solving, discouraging innovation, and diverting huge amounts of time into politicking and “working the system.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. Lakeland tracked the things that drove patient satisfaction — response times to call lights, pain management, the quality of the food, the effectiveness of patient communication, and so on. How could this be?

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. In the early 1970s, for instance, an upstart company called Canon set out a bold intent: "Beat Xerox."

Goal 9

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It was an enlightening conversation with business strategy guru Gary Hamel , Newport News Shipbuilding''s CIO Leni Kaufman , and Walgreens'' CIO Tim Theriault, with HBR editor Angelia Herrin moderating. Talent management is critically important. I want to spend more of my time on continuous improvement and innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

This outdoor clothing and gear company partnered with eBay on a new initiative. Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". Yes, you read that correctly: they wanted people to buy less stuff.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Managing baffles us with its complexity. Leaders looking to improve managing do not know where to start, much less where to finish. So even though the gales of creative destruction continually threaten their enterprises, they do not necessarily see radically revising their managing as the obvious solution.

Hamel 10

Hamel Creativity Learning-by-Doing Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Managing baffles us with its complexity. Leaders looking to improve managing do not know where to start, much less where to finish. So even though the gales of creative destruction continually threaten their enterprises, they do not necessarily see radically revising their managing as the obvious solution.

Hamel 10

Hamel Creativity Learning-by-Doing Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. So WalMart’s gargantuan core competencies of buying power, supply chain management and logistical superiority guarantee the “everyday low prices” its customers crave and demand. company like Apple. Because, as Web 2.0

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. In a similar vein, “strategic stress” can improve your company’s performance – up until a point. Azri Suratmin/Getty Images.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

After publishing a book about closing the execution gap by focusing on the "peopley" stuff, CEOs of major companies took me aside (in a friendly way) to suggest I had made a major faux pas, and would be seen as having gone "soft." Even companies producing "things" have found a way to embrace the new economy. Maybe yes, maybe no.

Hamel 16

Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Companies are comprised of business units, work groups, communities of practice, and alliances with suppliers, partners and customers. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But it''s tough to do that, especially when most management systems are so focused on individual performance, undermining the very teamwork you''re hoping to encourage. Luckily, you don''t have to overhaul your company''s evaluation process or pay structure. What Experts Say. Use the full arsenal of rewards. Evaluate team performance.

Team 10

Team How To Case Study Hamel 10

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

McKinsey 11

McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Her story is not only an inspiring one of adapting self-help narratives and neuroscience to "trick" her own mind; it’s also a tale couched in almost a century of management thinking about who can and can''t be a leader. He doesn''t say which young, fast-growing company he''s talking about, but I guess it doesn''t matter.

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power. People are changing faster than companies and governmental agencies. "I I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management.

Power 102

Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

As Generation Y enters the workforce, its members are undoubtedly having an effect on organizations and management. I often wonder what would happen if we were to give Gen Y the license to reinvent companies completely. I also know that many senior executives feel threatened by their behavior.

Hamel 14

Hamel Management Bottom-up Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In the early days, a management consultant used the familiar chiefs/Indians line to predict they’d fail. If the structure of the management committee was a problem, they would have failed by now. About 20% of the world’s websites are now on the WordPress platform – making it one of the most important internet companies.

Case Study 13

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13