First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 23, 2012

No change, no innovation = real trouble for any and every organization. From Gary Hamel, What Matters Now (notice the subtitle: How to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation): Innovation isn’t a fad—it’s the real deal, the only deal. The jury came in long ago.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 7, 2011

Online attendees will be able to see my presentation as well as those of consultant and author Gary Hamel, Liane Hornsey of Google, Dr. John Fleming of Gallup, author Dan Pink, Vineet Nayar CEO of HCL Technologies and Suzanne Gordon of SAS Institute.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment. Gary Hamel, Consultant and Professor London Business School. ? Professor Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management IMD. ? You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict. This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. Get enough sleep; 3.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

A client in need of innovation? And sure enough, bright folks such as Gary Hamel, C. I scribed notes of my favorite articles and had my secretary type them. Years later I referred to these notes in my capacity as a consultant. Yep, I can help with that,” I’d say. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 14, 2022

This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K. She wants to encourage innovation but wonders why her employees are not trying anything new. Worse, organizations often punish their employees for trying something new and failing. And the employees don’t understand why they can’t attempt something new.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2012

I have now presented my 15 minute version of Gary Hamel’s new book, What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation at yesterday morning’s First Friday book Synopsis. I look forward to one of my longer sessions with this book, where I can spend quite a [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

Innovation is something organizations the world over are craving as they strive to cope with these most uncertain of times. 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.

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Management Craft

AUGUST 28, 2012

I was talking to a small group of MBA students recently and asked if any had heard of Gary Hamel. I explained who he was and recommended his site, the Management Innovation Exchange. I was surprised, however, because Gary is not just a seasoned expert, he is very active and hip in the field of management innovation.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes. What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2013

Below you’ll find who we feel are the 2013 top 50 professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy, as well as five at-large professors. Innovation. Gary Hamel. Innovation Leadership Strategy innovation strategy top professors on twitter' Leadership. Bill George.

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Management Craft

MARCH 9, 2011

Management Legend Dr. Gary Hamel kicked us off this morning with a great keynote. Gary asked us all to catalyze innovation and passion at all levels of the organization. I have seen Gary speak before, but he is one of those down to earth but brilliant thinkers I could listen to again and again. Bring on Management 2.0!

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2012

Below you’ll find who we feel are the top professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy. Innovation. Gary Hamel. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from. Leadership. Bill George. Professor, Harvard Business School. Bill_George.

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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. Neal Burgis of Successful Solutions contributed Era of Innovation Acceleration. Neal explains: “Every crisis is an opportunity leading to a new point of innovation. How can you have both freedom and control?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2012

Without relentless innovation, success is fleeting. …there’s not one company in a hundred that has made innovation everyone’s job, every day. ?In In most organizations, innovation still happens “despite the system” rather than because of it.?…innovation Gary Hamel, What Matters [.].

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not need – buy the book). Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy looks at the Bureaucratic Mass Index of organizations – and how to upgrade them to Humanocracies with freedom and responsibility ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed Humanocracy: upgrade your organization and culture.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes. What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh.

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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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Management Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2011

This “management innovation” as Dr. Gary Hamel describes it, is much about the search for approaches to organizing, planning, leading and controlling that better fit the challenges of the 21st century. The implication is that in many cases, we’re still trying to solve new and emerging problems with 20th century management tools.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Comoetition, and Unstoppable Innovation Gary Hamel Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why knowing and doing what matters NOW will create an organization “fit for the future and fit for human beings” I have read and reviewed all of Gary Hamel’s previously [.].

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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. Management 1.0 was built to encourage reliability, predictability, discipline, alignment and control.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 27, 2012

Put bluntly, there’s simply no way to build tomorrow’s essential organizational capabilities – resilience, innovation, and employee engagement – [.]. For most of us, weekends provide an opportunity to take a rest from thinking about weekday concerns and consider less urgent – but perhaps much more important – issues.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 14, 2011

Even the staid British publication The Economist recently claimed, “Innovation is now recognized as the single most important ingredient in any modern economy.” (Tom Kelley: The Ten Faces of Innovation) —— For the SMU Cox School of Business – Business Leadership Center, I recently presented my new session on innovation: Adaptation, (..)

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. One mistake people tend to make is holding the belief that all the innovators and futurists can be only be found in works being published today. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the comment Caroline.

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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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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Section 2 is all about innovation. He sees innovation as hope and a cure for all the nasty he noted in the first section. I love the long subtitles they use for books now - they tend to be quite descriptive) Ironically (based on the See Do blog above), the first chapter starts with "What Matters Most" and talks about values.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not needed – buy the book). Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Strategy guru Gary Hamel wrote in the Harvard Business Review: “Corporations around the world are reaching the limits of incrementalism. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. Authenticity creates trust; trust is a must-have ingredient in the risk-taking recipe required for innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

In their latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel and his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini, outline seven steps leaders can take to better respond to crises such as this one. Tackle the climate of fear. Co-create strategies.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2021

London Business School’s Gary Hamel and Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini have been fighting the good fight against bureaucracy for many years now, and they continue to wage war on it in their latest book, Humanocracy, in which they make a data-driven argument for uprooting bureaucracy and unleashing the human spirit at work.

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Management Craft

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

As I told you back on January 20th, I submitted an entry into the HCI M-Prize on the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) website. The judges (first round judges included folks like Dr. Gary Hamel and Marcus Buckingham) will then narrow to three finalists and then to one winner. I received some great news this morning.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2012

Here were our first two book choices: • The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. On April 3, 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented our first two books at the first ever First Friday Book Synopsis. Knopf, 1997) – synopsis presented by Randy Mayeux. • The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every [.].

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2015

A little over five years ago I created an evolution of a Gary Hamel framework from The Future of Management that I titled The Innovator's Framework and included in my popular first book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. Continue reading →

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As Gary Hamel wrote in Leading The Revolution : “Everyday, companies get blindsided by the future–yet the future never arrives as a surprise to everyone in the organization. Technorati Tags: Gary Hamel , innovation , leadership , problem solving , strategy , Wake Up Pad. Someone somewhere was paying attention.&#.

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