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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. Gary Hamel, Consultant and Professor London Business School. ? It depends on the choices leaders make and the eco-systems they create. —Constantijn Van Oranje, Special Envoy Startup Delta. ? Management has maybe become too machine smitten. Adopt mindfulness; 2.

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The Leadership Response To Coronavirus

The Horizons Tracker

Travel has been disrupted, tourism has shriveled, healthcare systems have come under intense strain, and factory output has withered. Those still working on site are often arguably under even greater strain, whether those in our hospitals and health systems, or those in our food and retail supply chains. Co-create strategies.

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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!”. Most likely, the recognition and reward system that drives the daily activities and behaviors of each person in the workforce is not aligned with the strategy of the organization. Why the gaps?

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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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Bureaucracy Is Keeping Health Care from Getting Better

Harvard Business Review

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Bureaucracy is destroying value in innumerable ways, including slowing problem solving, discouraging innovation, and diverting huge amounts of time into politicking and “working the system.”

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Harvard Business Review

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. This means spending more time exploring the implications of AI, helping others extend their own frontiers of knowledge, and learning through experimentation to develop new practices. pchyburrs/Getty Images.

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

Arguably one of humanity's most important inventions, "modern" management was developed more than a century ago to maximize standardization, specialization, hierarchy, control, and shareholder interests. It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends.

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