Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We need t look no further than Volkswagen’s “dieselgate” scandal in 2015. Gary Hamel put it well in his forward to our first addition, “ Beyond Performance is far more than a guide to leading a successful change program. Poor organizational health lead to cutting corners and rule-breaking.

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Hamel Objective McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 280

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). The choice for organizations today is: change or die.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8