The Practical Leader

JUNE 30, 2020

To fix organizational problems or make major changes, managers often hire consultants to analyze what’s happening and provide improvement recommendations. In “Harnessing Everyday Genius,” in the latest edition of Harvard Business Review , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini show what a big problem this is.

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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

MARCH 9, 2011

Management Legend Dr. Gary Hamel kicked us off this morning with a great keynote. Check out his book The Future of Management (great title!). The ideology of traditional management is bureaucracy.". Bring on Management 2.0! I love this line! "If If you have to have a burning platform, you are already toast.".

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Our own Instigator, Jane Perdue (@thehrgoddess) has a “hack” posted over at Gary Hamel’s Management Information Exchange titled Square Pegs, Sacred Cows and Starting Over with Leadership that you should check out.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 31, 2011

It seems everyone is writing a book on management needs to change. 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.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. Management has maybe become too machine smitten. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan. Philip Kotler, Professor, Kellogg School of Management. ? Gary Hamel, Consultant and Professor London Business School. ? Adopt mindfulness; 2.

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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 The the harbingers (and renegades) of Management 2.0? ".(they're)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2011

The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects.

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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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

How do we manage the journey? Gary Hamel put it well in his forward to our first addition, “ Beyond Performance is far more than a guide to leading a successful change program. An emphasis on both performance and health can be mace part of the change process by applying what they call the Five Frames of Performance and Health.

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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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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

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. “The future isn’t a lion in the veld. ”

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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 an invitation to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, management, institutions, and life at work. What matters now is that managers embrace the responsibilities of stewardship.

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QAspire

MARCH 23, 2021

“Tomorrow’s management systems will need to value diversity, dissent and divergence as highly as conformance, consensus and cohesion.” ” – Gary Hamel. The gap between people who do the work and people at the top widens because no one in the organization stands up to say the truth.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 26, 2020

This has been a mission of London Business School’s Gary Hamel for pretty much his entire career, but it’s perhaps fair to say that the pandemic has really shone a light on the need to not only provide great workplaces that support people when they’re at work, but also that support people in their entire lives.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

In the Chat Preview, the Chat questions were listed and articles for pre-reading, including First Fire All the Managers by Gary Hamel and Emergent Leadership Topples the Pyramid by Jesse Stoner. The #IndiaHRChat is attended by many experienced business leaders and HR professionals who tackle meaty issues around leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared The 3 Most Important Traits Teams Want in a New Manager. Learn 5 ways to manage your mind to better control your mouth. Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided Four Tips to Manage Your Email. Miller writes Leaders Who Micro-Manage Are Over-Functioning.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

The topic for this Chat was “Emergent Leadership” In the India HR Chat Preview, the questions that would be asked during the chat were listed and also articles for pre-reading, including First Fire All the Managers by Gary Hamel and Emergent Leadership Topples the Pyramid by Jesse Stoner.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. hackmanagement: Very interesting post from Gary Hamel: What is Adaptability? Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers by @petefriedes. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn. Read " The Art of Receiving " by @LollyDaskal.

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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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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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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Lately I have been using a slightly different time management technique which I call the "See Do" method. Where the system has flaws and things required to make it effective: 1 - All other time management systems (including the ones I write about in my time management book ) use a priority system. See a spot, wipe it.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Randy shares: “ Relationships between management and labor often have an inherent level of distrust. Robyn summarizes: “While training and policies are important, in the end, it comes down to individual leaders modeling the right behavior and holding other leaders and managers accountable for doing the same.” Development.

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Management Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2011

One of the exciting parts of living and working through “these interesting times,” comes from the opportunity to apply the tools of management in new ways and forms to today’s complex problems. 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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Management Craft

JUNE 15, 2012

Management is dead. Long live management. Gary Hamel and Dan Pink remind us that management was created during the dawn of the industrial age to solve very different problems than we have today. I am not ready to stick a tombstone onto the practice of management. Who is right? This is true, for sure. The essence?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens. 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. Every business is successful until it’s not.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. 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.

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Management Craft

JUNE 1, 2011

If you think of management as something people do to pay a mortgage when they fail to succeed at the really cool jobs, you are pretty much doomed from the start. And we know that great management is the engine of progress. I love how Gary Hamel defined management as " the technology of human accomplishment ," in this post.

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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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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 22, 2013

{On April 5, 2013, we will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the First Friday Book Synopsis, and begin our 16th year. During March, I will post a blog post per day remembering key insights from some of the books I have presented over the 15 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis. We have met [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens. 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. Every business is successful until it’s not.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 27, 2012

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. For example: “New problems demand new principles.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. 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.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Life Itself” “The Participative Leader Framework” Bill Breen Bill Gates Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Chariots of Fire Collaborative Leader Action Dan Pink Dan Pontefract: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization TELUS the TELUS Leadership Philosophy and the Learning 2.0

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