Management Craft

JUNE 1, 2011

If you think of management as something people do to pay a mortgage when they fail to succeed at the really cool jobs, you are pretty much doomed from the start. And we know that great management is the engine of progress. I love how Gary Hamel defined management as " the technology of human accomplishment ," in this post.

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Hamel Definition Management Construction 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

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. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 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. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? company like Apple.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain 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 This ethos helps to continually open up the field of play at Rite-Solutions to new products, technologies, and directions. You behave, you stay.'

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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.

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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.

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Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8