Book review: The Future of Management, by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen.
Gary Hamel’s latest book, The Future of Management comes at a time when many companies, especially those in the U.S., face overwhelming competition from Chinese and Indian firms, not to mention established competition from Japan and Western Europe.
Hamel asks if companies constantly innovate new products, and improve existing ones, why don’t they do the same to their management approach? This might imply a change in management style away from a militaristic command-and-control model of past centuries, to a latticed, network style of management birthed out of how the Internet has changed the way we think of information and communities. [click to continue…]
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I met a Malawian, a gatekeeper at a game reserve there, who was mauled during a lion attack. His face is terribly scarred and he’s missing an ear; but he’s alive.
That got me thinking about you. It’s likely you’ve been mauled too. Not by a lion, but by something more powerful and pervasive: Bureaucracy. And you’ve got the scars to prove it; yet somehow you’ve made it through.
Bureaucracy is the mother-of-all legacy systems. It directs what you do and how you do it. And if you want to overturn it, or simply change it a little, or arrest its operation for just one team, it won’t let you. I’ll bet it’s the single biggest impediment to your agile ambitions. But you’re correct to want to change it, because these days bureaucracy is not the best organizing principle we can think of. [click to continue…]
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