Six Disciplines

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How Excellence Degrades In Organizations

Six Disciplines

Gary Hamel is a leading management author and consultant, whose books include Leading the Revolution, Competing for the Future, and The Future of Management. In his WSJ blog post GM: Why Good Companies Go Bad Hamel asserts: "How does this happen? How do yesterday’s icons become today’s also-rans?

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Management 2.0 and Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, " Inventing Management 2.0 ", Professor Gary Hamel talks about leadership development, change, and offers his insights as to what needs to change, in order to progress to Management 2.0. Management 1.0 was built to encourage reliability, predictability, discipline, alignment and control.

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To Understand Strategy, Look At What People Are Doing

Six Disciplines

Here''s a profound observation from management guru, Gary Hamel: "If you want to understand the real strategy, look at what people are doing!”. Indeed, more often than not, there are disconnects or gaps between the strategy that is formulated by the senior leadership team, and how the strategy is executed by the rest of the workforce.

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