Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. For almost 100 years, management has been associated with the five basic functions outlined by management theorist Henri Fayol: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.

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Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future. Management still matters significantly. Why does management still matter? My personal crusade here is to bring management back onto an equal putting with leadership.

Competitive Advantage 121

Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

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

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. By developing very different capabilities than Xerox's, Canon created a new recipe for success, and in the process short-circuited Xerox's ability to retaliate quickly. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies.

Goal 8

Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But it''s tough to do that, especially when most management systems are so focused on individual performance, undermining the very teamwork you''re hoping to encourage. As a team manager, you can support the right behaviors with things that are in your control. Team members have to understand and agree on what success looks like.

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Team How To Case Study Hamel 8