Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2012

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. I asked Gary what leadership behaviors have the most impact on organizations. Gary took a swing at the reason we don’t put a ding in the [.].

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 31, 2011

Julian Birkinshaw, co-founder of The Management Lab with Gary Hamel, has a new book, "Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Word Done" that is clearly one of the best. It seems everyone is writing a book on management needs to change. A few stand out, at least for me (see below for my recommendations).

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Management Craft

MARCH 8, 2011

I think that great talent management systems can and should cultivate and catalyze human potential and this is one idea that might help talent management become a powerful and positive enabler. Dr. Gary Hamel and the Management Exchange team are dedicated to building a community of people their ideas and innovation. .

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2011

Fostering creativity and innovation. In a section entitled “The role of management is still in yesteryear mode,&# author and professor Gary Hamel partnered with DDI to identify which of the following disablers were most prominent. Power and influence are held by those who value the status quo.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Knowledge arbitrage is a term coined by Gary Hamel. Do you see the power of the knowledge arbitrage? Related Posts: Knowledge Arbitrage – A way to innovate 10 ideas to get new ideas What are you paying for making money? Look for knowledge arbitrage. How about Avelle for renting luxury handbags?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy shows the power of paradox as part of organization culture. Art Petty provided Leadership Caffeine—Harnessing the Power of Purpose in Your Work. Neal Burgis of Successful Solutions contributed Era of Innovation Acceleration. How can you have both freedom and control?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. Learning, not knowledge, will power organizations into the future; and the central champion of learning should be the manager. Companies need to learn that their successes should not distract them from innovation.

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Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S. Pick an Apt Objective. Link the New to the Old.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. If you don't have a clear understanding of why you are pursuing an innovation, you risk being wasteful and ineffective, and could lack strong differentiators from incumbents. What are our core insights that will lead us to market-shaping innovations?"

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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.".

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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. FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms. Customers Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Hierarchies are seen as stiff, outdated, stifling — in today's social and digital age, innovation is the name of the game. The move to the use of first names is part of this cultural shift of power to the people. To get left behind is to risk branding yourself as a dinosaur, and a less powerful/authoritative one at that.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

In short, the art and practice of capitalism itself might need deep-rooted innovation. And while I'm delighted that giants (many of my intellectual heroes, truth be told) like Porter, Peter Senge, Gary Hamel, Martin Wolf, and others agree, it's another matter to get to the other side.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). As a result, customers’ expectations are raised.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As you pointed out, being a one-trick pony, while better than not reading at all, is not as powerful as purposeful reading across topics. The power of the written word to make a difference in this world by inspiring others is enormous. Bottom line…If you’re a leader and not an avid reader, you’re wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Most managers don''t have the power to change how salaries or bonuses are handled at their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). To see my selections, click here. So what makes a Master?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So when we were first contacted about a possible collaboration by the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), which sees its role as "creating organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future — and genuinely fit for human beings," we were immediately excited by the possibilities. With the Management 2.0

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

The Creator Mindset : 63 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability by Nir Bashan. In Calling B t, Professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West give us a set of powerful tools to cut through the most intimidating data. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Andrea Ovans Beware the Tentacles This Is How Bureaucracy Dies Fortune Gary Hamel says it''s disheartening to go inside "one of America''s youngest and fastest growing IT companies" and find that it already has 600 vice presidents, a pretty strong indicator that the "tentacles of bureaucracy" are rapidly encircling it.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2012

What Matters Now : How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel. The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Turn the Ship Around!

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power. 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. A Brewing Situation for Grassroots Leadership through Social Power.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I have a lot of faith in the Millennials' imagination, based partly on my experience at HCL, in the area of technology innovation. My confidence in Gen Y — as well as my faith in bottom-up innovation — has been reinforced over the past month as I perused the entries submitted to the HCL MBA M-Prize.

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