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Leading Thoughts for December 22, 2022

Leading Blog

Gary Hamel on the need for leaders to be stewards: “If you are a leader at any level in any organization, you are a steward—of careers, capabilities, resources, the environment, and organizational values. Developing your Lookout skills over time will create the lasting change you want, in your leadership and in your life.”.

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The 4 Practices of Successful Flat Organizations

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

As more organizations are becoming flatter, the looming question is whether it’s possible to “do more with less” or whether it’s necessary to rethink the distribution of power and control as described by Peter Drucker, Peter Block and Gary Hamel among others. → Read More: The 4 Practices of Successful Flat Organizations.

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Your Organization Is Values Driven – The Question Is, “What Are The Values?” (insight from Gary Hamel)

First Friday Book Synopsis

By definition, every organization is “values driven.” Gary Hamel, What Matters Now ————— Gary Hamel, in his newest book What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation (the subtitle wears me out, thinking about all [.].

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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

Most organizations are not like Google. They are unwilling to give their employees time to try new things, even when the organization would benefit. Worse, organizations often punish their employees for trying something new and failing. This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K.

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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them

Eric Jacobson

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Humanocracy expertly lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are inspiring and ingenious, and provides you research-based examples, practical guidance and, most important, action steps to take immediately.

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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them

Eric Jacobson

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Humanocracy expertly lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are inspiring and ingenious, and provides you research-based examples, practical guidance and, most important, action steps to take immediately.

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Penn Sate, and Libor, and… – What does Your Organization Truly Value?

First Friday Book Synopsis

By definition, every organization is “values driven.” Gary Hamel, What Matters Now ————- Let’s think about what organizations value. We’d best start with this: what does your organization value? The only question is, what values are in the driver’s seat? Everything depends on it.

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