First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation' Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Apple Berkeley Booth School of Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville C.K.

Prahalad 93

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Drucker 93

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation' His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […]. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

Prahalad 75

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

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. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Kelvin Murray/Getty Images. What about solutions? ” I beg to differ. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. When your culture is strong, people seem to genuinely enjoy their work and the people they work with; they tend to do their work well and on time.

Positioning 78

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). If so, how?

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Project 8

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. Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age.

Hamel 16

Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16