First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

Prahalad 75

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Lately I have been using a slightly different time management technique which I call the "See Do" method. Where the system has flaws and things required to make it effective: 1 - All other time management systems (including the ones I write about in my time management book ) use a priority system. See a spot, wipe it.

System 133

System Management Hamel Innovation 133

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. How many layers are there from frontline employees up to your CEO/top position? While you are breaking down bureaucracy within your organization, the authors also recommend you ask these 9 questions.

Bureaucracy 65

Bureaucracy Hamel Politics Budgeting 65

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2020

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. How many layers are there from frontline employees up to your CEO/top position? While you are breaking down bureaucracy within your organization, the authors also recommend you ask these 9 questions.

Organization 65

Organization Bureaucracy Hamel Politics 65

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Strategy guru Gary Hamel wrote in the Harvard Business Review: “Corporations around the world are reaching the limits of incrementalism. When I first met then Southeast Airlines CEO, Herb Kelleher, we were both working the booth at the 1997 BookExpo at Chicago’s McCormick Center. Fun Leaders Are Real.

Six Sigma 150

Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

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

AUGUST 29, 2012

I recently attended the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) Mashup and I was pleasantly surprised to hear themes of love, trust, and candor being brought up as hot management priorities, and a demonstration of the willingness to break traditional leadership boundaries. not to freak out. pushing the envelope of transparency.".

Management 15

Management Hamel Self-aware Document 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. ” CEOs are substantially less likely than frontline staff to see bureaucratic barriers in their organizations. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It has been highlighted almost the same number of times as one of my all-time favorite books “ Leading the Revolution &# by Gary Hamel. David Cohen ( TechStars CEO) and I were spending the weekend with our wives at my house in Keystone, Colorado. The first was simply managing everyone to get their writing into us.

Entrepreneur 49

Entrepreneur Hamel Books Library 49

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A fellow business leader complained the other day that although he had repeatedly sought feedback, his team had never told him what they really thought about his management style. Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. Two decades ago, the late C.K.

Power 15

Power McTaggart Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The findings are sobering: almost half of CEOs view their CIOs as out of step with the business and about the same percentage think IT should be a commodity service, purchased as needed. Be part of that conversation, and then you become part of what is on the CEO''s mind. Talent management is critically important.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. Why Management Matters: Welcome to the HBR Insight Center. It's an evergreen idea.

Goal 9

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. Are you and your organization working differently than others? If so, how?

Positioning 78

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For junior employees, it levels the playing field; for senior or "seasoned" managers, it implies accessibility — a commodity of increasing value in today's social and digital age. As for managers and executives, the flat organization is where it's at. And it may be hard as that CEO to swallow it. Level the playing field.

Hamel 10

Hamel CEO Maturity Travel 10

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). Strategy/Management (Sell different).

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. “Actually,” the CEO responded, “we do have a core competence that unites us: we’re very, very good at winning government contracts.” Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I've heard things like: "I plan on hiring 3 biz dev people to get $345K per headcount in revenues." We manage the measurable, rather than the things that create meaning that fuels creativity, that enables innovative thinking and that helps any company to outpace the market.

Hamel 16

Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

I recently got a call from a CEO of a health system that encompasses several hospitals, medical practices, and clinics. The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. How, the CEO wondered, could Lakeland reinvent the experience of healthcare for its patients?

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business. Only 46 percent of CEOs think their CIOs understand the business. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation. IT management'

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

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. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0 Challenge, the first round of the HBR/McKinsey Management prize. You behave, you stay.'

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

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. In Hamel''s view, every company should be like the internet: decentralized, non-bureaucratic, flexible, and empowering.

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K. This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan , who spent 30 years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy. On the other hand, we have quarterly objectives we pay attention to, but these shorter term tactics can lack inspiration.

Mission Statement 15

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K. This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan , who spent 30 years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy. On the other hand, we have quarterly objectives we pay attention to, but these shorter term tactics can lack inspiration.

Mission Statement 15

Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Faced with a competitive challenge from Netflix, CEO John Antioco came up with what seems, even in retrospect, to be a viable plan. Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Gary Hamel and C.K. Managing people' Loose connections.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Faced with a competitive challenge from Netflix, CEO John Antioco came up with what seems, even in retrospect, to be a viable plan. Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Gary Hamel and C.K. Managing people' Loose connections.

Organization 8

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. The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power.

Power 102

Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Challenge the process David Whyte, the poet and philosopher, says that the CEO is the Chief Conversation Officer. The CEO must initiate and participate in the conversations that everyone else is afraid to have (or might not have even considered). These conversations often start with tough questions. What is our organization bad at?

Hamel 78

Hamel Decentralization Charisma Skills 78

CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Challenge the process David Whyte, the poet and philosopher, says that the CEO is the Chief Conversation Officer. The CEO must initiate and participate in the conversations that everyone else is afraid to have (or might not have even considered). These conversations often start with tough questions. What is our organization bad at?

Hamel 78

Hamel Decentralization Charisma Skills 78

CO2

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

David Whyte, the poet and philosopher, says that the CEO is the Chief Conversation Officer. The CEO must initiate and participate in the conversations that everyone else is afraid to have (or might not have even considered). Challenge the process. These conversations often start with tough questions. What is our organization bad at?

Hamel 60

Hamel Decentralization Charisma Skills 60

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. There is the CEO (elected democratically), a handful of functional heads, and everyone else. Why is this so? Innovation'

Case Study 13

Case Study Committee Software Hamel 13