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 am often concerned during Executive reviews for example, that product visions are not well communicated to stakeholders. They are often not able to quote the vision for the products that make up their businesses. The visions don’t even make it onto the slides!
As Product Owners, you form and hold your product’s vision — but please don’t keep it a secret. Certainly every one in your team should be able to quote the vision verbatim, but I am disappointed if that’s as deep as it goes. In every presentation given about your product, your product vision should be the central theme. After all, your product is your business.
As a suggestion to get your product vision better known, why don’t you create an email signature that quotes it?
I know Product Owners know that forming a product vision is a key responsibility of theirs; what I don’t know is why it’s not used to unify and motivate the team and stakeholders alike.
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