Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. The best project managers, he writes, have a "magical" impact; companies need to do a better job of supporting and encouraging them. Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. The best project managers, he writes, have a “magical” impact; companies need to do a better job of supporting and encouraging them. Gary Hamel will explore how companies build their innovation engines.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

So WalMart’s gargantuan core competencies of buying power, supply chain management and logistical superiority guarantee the “everyday low prices” its customers crave and demand. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

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. As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0 Webinar Note: Join Gary Hamel for a free webinar focused on the best new ideas from the Management 2.0 You behave, you stay.' Register here.

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Lakeland tracked the things that drove patient satisfaction — response times to call lights, pain management, the quality of the food, the effectiveness of patient communication, and so on. Not surprisingly, front line employees and their managers started to become less tolerant of colleagues with crappy attitudes.

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

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

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it. Gary Hamel and C.K. Managing people'

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it. Gary Hamel and C.K. Managing people'

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8