Future Of Management, The

Description:
What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation - new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. In 'The Future of Management', Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever. Why? The management paradigm of the last century - centred on control and efficiency - no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. To thrive in the future, companies must reinvent management.Hamel explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator, revealing: the make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of relentless, head-snapping change; the toxic effects of traditional management beliefs; the unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in 'modern management pioneers'; the radical principles that will need to become part of every company's 'management DNA'; and, the steps your company can take now to build your 'management advantage'. Practical and profound, 'The Future of Management' features examples from Google, W.L. Gore, Whole Foods, IBM, Samsung, Best Buy, and other blue-ribbon management innovators.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Part I: Why Management Innovation Matters; 1. The End of Management? 2. The Ultimate Advantage; 3. An Agenda for Management Innovation; Part II: Management Innovation in Action; 4. Creating a Community of Purpose: Whole Foods Market; 5. Building an Innovation Democracy: W.L. Gore; 6. Aiming for an Evolutionary Advantage: Google; Part III: The Principles of Management Innovation; 7. Escaping the Shackles; 8. Embracing New Principles; 9. Learning from the Fringe; Part IV: Getting Started; 10. Becoming a Management Innovator; 11. Building the Future of Management; Conclusion: Building the Future of Management

Author Biography:
Gary Hamel is Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School and Director of the Management Innovation Lab. He is the author of Leading the Revolution and coauthor of Competing for the Future.