First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes. Every business is successful until it’s not. What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens.

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Hamel Innovation Creativity Resources 70

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2020

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Human beings are creative. Because, the greater the percentage of employees who agree with the following statements, the more entrepreneurial, nimble and creative your organization: My work is my passion.

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Organization Bureaucracy Hamel Politics 65

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Gary Hamel: "Give someone monarch-like authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screw-up." _robin_sharma: Here's an article called, " The 8 Faces of Exceptionally Creative Leaders ". @ScottEblin: FT offers some sage perspective on why most training doesn't work. From What Matters Now. What are your core in-competencies?

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Hamel Covey Charisma Loyalty 256

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2013

James Wilson HBR How to Aim for Smart Failure John Butman John Jantsch Josh Linkner Ken Robinson Leaders Everywhere: A conversation with Gary Hamel Lego''s Core Principles for Successful Interaction With Users Lest we forget this Memorial Day….

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Kaplan Blog Hamel Handbook 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

According to Gary Hamel, it's your management model. Organizations with management models that foster initiative, creativity, and innovation, he says, will gain the clear advantage, as their employees set the strategic vision and create the products and services the future demands. And don't expect the experiments to end.

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Hamel Webinar Management Agility 10

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2011

Fostering creativity and innovation. In a section entitled “The role of management is still in yesteryear mode,&# author and professor Gary Hamel partnered with DDI to identify which of the following disablers were most prominent. The five most critical skills for leaders are (in rank order): Driving and managing change.

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Globalization Hamel Leadership Strategic Planning 49

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy shows the power of paradox as part of organization culture. ” Creativity/Inspiration. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed Culture: how do you handle paradox ? Marcella considers: “ Let’s create organizations as inspired as the human beings inside them.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 373

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.

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Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

If you are a manager what it means is if you’re doing your job right you are helping people to figure out how to solve problems, to figure out how to develop themselves as a person, to figure out how to do some of the more creative and challenging things that have organizations to become more agile and more adaptable.

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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. This is already happening in many industries — workers are being replaced with robots, especially for work that is more manual than mental, more repetitive than creative. pchyburrs/Getty Images.

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Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

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. In his recent HBR article Gary Hamel described traditional-enterprise ailments as being inertial, incremental, and insipid.

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Hamel Creativity Learning-by-Doing Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

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. In his recent HBR article Gary Hamel described traditional-enterprise ailments as being inertial, incremental, and insipid.

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Hamel Creativity Learning-by-Doing Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

Gurus like Don Tapscott , Tammy Erickson , John Hagel , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Gary Hamel , and more recently, Umair Haque , have all written about how our new economy is about producing ideas, experiences, and meaning. It includes groups being creative. Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age.

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Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

And while I'm delighted that giants (many of my intellectual heroes, truth be told) like Porter, Peter Senge, Gary Hamel, Martin Wolf, and others agree, it's another matter to get to the other side. That what matter more than creativity, passion, fulfillment and meaning are obedience, control, power, and domination.

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Porter Short-term Senge Hamel 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Disney’s core competencies of characters and creative storytelling shape virtually everything it does. Exploring how to creatively and cost-effectively externalize core competencies is now as much an insurance policy as invitation to innovate. This theme is examined in greater depth in my eBook.).

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Similarly ingenious and purely homegrown rituals like the party seem to tumble forth from Lavoie and Marion, who are relentlessly creative, playful, often goofy, and utterly committed to inviting and supporting engaged contribution. Webinar Note: Join Gary Hamel for a free webinar focused on the best new ideas from the Management 2.0

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Future value comes from the collaboration and creativity of people in solving problems or realizing opportunities. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation. Then, decide which tasks need to be done manually vs. automatically. If the work to be done requires neither of these, then automate it.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

Creativity isn’t a “nice to have” leadership trait. even if you don’t think you’re a “creative” person. But on creativity? The answer is creativity?and and it’s the missing ingredient for far too many of us who feel we’re not reaching our creative potential (or doubt we have it in the first place). Not so much.

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Books Hamel Leadership Press Release 360

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

To do that, he said, I want to challenge you to bring your heart to work in new and creative ways. ” By the way — that CEO was my brother, Dr. Loren Hamel. We’re going to learn to be more loving. For a nurse or an x-ray tech with 10 or 20 years of experience, delivering health care is a routine.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

It fuels creativity to succeed. My current reading list includes: - Leading the Revolution (Gary Hamel) - Juice (Evan Schwartz) - REWORK (Jason Fried) - Trust Agents (Brogan) - Medici Effect (Johannson) - Delivering Happiness (Hsieh) M [link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for sharing your thoughts as well as the great list of books.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

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.

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McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Gary Hamel has suggested we redesign the corporation as more a vehicle for human accomplishment than a military machine. Richard Florida has suggested that we optimize for creative capital — not just financial capital. Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Roger Martin has elegantly and brilliantly argued why maximizing shareholder value's a destructive goal ; Jack Welch has called the single-minded pursuit of shareholder value the " dumbest idea in the world ;" Teresa Amabile has cogently chronicled why higher purpose leads to better performance; Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Tom Peters have both found time (..)

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Hamel Welch Short-term Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Gary Hamel and C.K. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has described his company’s values at length in a new book called How Google Works , which emphasizes how Google seeks out “smart creatives” and strives to build a working environment where their ideas can thrive at scale. In nature, the purpose of a system is hardwired.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Gary Hamel and C.K. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has described his company’s values at length in a new book called How Google Works , which emphasizes how Google seeks out “smart creatives” and strives to build a working environment where their ideas can thrive at scale. In nature, the purpose of a system is hardwired.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Organized in conjunction with Gary Hamel's Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) — a collaborative platform dedicated to the reinvention of management — the contest offers B-school students a chance to come up with proposals that point toward the organization of the future.

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Hamel Management Bottom-up Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Richard Florida's path-breaking idea of creative capital is deeply eudaimonic — because creative capital intensive outputs (like great art, books, gyms, and meals) are expressions of living better. Gary Hamel , whose Future of Management is about creating the capacity to live better.

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GDP Hamel Industry Construction 21