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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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

In his latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel teams up with his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini to explore how organizations can better structure themselves for the modern age. Innovation is something organizations the world over are craving as they strive to cope with these most uncertain of times.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2012

What Matters Now by Gary Hamel is probably one of the most important books you could read this year. It is, as Hamel describes it, “a blueprint for creating organizations that are fit for the future and fit for human beings.” Here are some of his thoughts that become more powerful as they sink in: Values Matter Now.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2021

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Human beings are creative. Organizations are (mostly) not. Human beings are passionate.

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Organization Bureaucracy Hamel Politics 65

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Among 5 powers leaders need. How to Lead : Discovering the Source of Power From W. Gary Hamel: "Give someone monarch-like authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screw-up." ronkarr: Your influence and power comes from other people! mjasmus: Most read in 2011: 30 Overlooked Acts of Leadership Courage.

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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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Hamel Organization Leadership Company 104

Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

This blog focuses on three essential tips that can help you get the best and most out of others: The Two-for-One Rule: Two positives for every “aw shucks,” or negatives; The Power of Positive Feedback; and, Managing the Sting of Emotion in the Workplace: It’s not if, rather how we handle mistakes.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Human beings are creative. Organizations are (mostly) not. Human beings are passionate.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2020

The book subtitle in the headline above convinced me to read, Humanocracy , by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Human beings are creative. Organizations are (mostly) not. Human beings are passionate.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. How power gets exercised. Management 1.0 How strategies get created. How opportunities get identified.

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Hamel Management Executive Coaching Software 101

Surviving Leadership

MARCH 26, 2019

And many of you may wonder, “What the hell does Gary Hamel/George Clooney/Kat Cole/Geena Davis/Brené Brown/Viola Davis/etc. ” (Okay, maybe Gary Hamel , Kat Cole and Brené Brown make sense. have to do with working human?!” And they were phenomenal. And I got to meet Kat Cole, so there.)

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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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HCI Hamel Talent Management System 68

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The cover article in the December issue of Harvard Business Review reminded me of this powerful little story: A scout leader was trying to lift a fallen tree from the path. You can read an excerpt from that chapter at “ Leadership Keys to Harnessing the Power of Teams “ His pack gathered around to watch him struggle.

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P&L Hamel Open-book Review 53

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2011

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. Coaching from managers (68/63). Special projects or assignments (68/66).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

That's the power of intent. In such scenarios the "I don't have the right answers for you, but let's march ahead and discover how can we get to our goals faster" articulation is more powerful than rhetoric. Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. Two decades ago, the late C.K.

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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? Look for knowledge arbitrage. In simple terms, it is a process of applying knowledge from one field in another field. Remember NetFlix for renting movies and the same way remember NetJets for renting corporate jets.

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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. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed Culture: how do you handle paradox ? How can you have both freedom and control?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

While that model delivered an immense contribution to global prosperity, the values driving our most powerful institutions are fundamentally at odds with those of this age. It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? How Ethical Are You?

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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. pchyburrs/Getty Images. Restrictive to expansive: Too many managers micromanage.

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Fayol Management Hamel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Management guru Gary Hamel has coined the term Management 2.0 , which seeks to reinvent management in a way that is fit for the future and for humankind. As Hamel says: "Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy.we pushing the envelope of transparency.". Trust is a key tenet of this school of thought.

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Management Hamel Self-aware Document 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The move to the use of first names is part of this cultural shift of power to the people. As Gary Hamel said in The Future of Management , "Hierarchies are good at aggregating effort (coordinating activities of many people) but they're not very good at mobilizing effort — inspiring people to go above and beyond."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

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. That what matter more than creativity, passion, fulfillment and meaning are obedience, control, power, and domination.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Core insights are a complement to the familiar notion of core competencies , which were first advocated by Gary Hamel and the late C.K. For example, Honda's strategy was to quickly absorb its hybrid technology into models that looked no different than standard gasoline-powered ones. Their hybrids failed to catch people's imaginations.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Most managers don''t have the power to change how salaries or bonuses are handled at their organizations. At a meeting with Gary Hamel, just before the famed management thinker was about to give a speech referencing PfizerWorks at the World Business Forum, Jordan asked if he''d be willing to mention the team by name.

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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

MARCH 21, 2012

Kid Spectrum's previous owner, Arthur Hamel, had told Matthew that Ellen, with nearly two decades of experience in health services, would be one of his biggest assets. Maybe the new power has gone to her head.". He appreciated Ellen's eagerness to help him build the business, even if she was sometimes abrupt. Matthew, it's Ellen.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

In Calling B t, Professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West give us a set of powerful tools to cut through the most intimidating data. He presents a vision for learning that's more inclusive and democratic—revealing a world bursting with powerful learners, just waiting for the chance they deserve.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

The power of mindsets is brought home by Gary Hamel and C.K. Asking "why" enough times is a simple and powerful way help you uncover and deal with those mindsets in ways that will boost employee engagement and business performance. They've all learned the rule that "You don't grab the bananas around here.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K. But concreteness has the power to elevate aspiration as well. A powerful strategic intent inspires people partially because it answers the question, "How will we know when we are done?". Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K. But concreteness has the power to elevate aspiration as well. A powerful strategic intent inspires people partially because it answers the question, "How will we know when we are done?". Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent.

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Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 15

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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