The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 12, 2011

” In “First, Let’s Fire all the Managers,” Gary Hamel reports on his study of Morning Star, a $700 million California food producer that “demonstrates how to create an organization that combines managerial discipline and market-centric flexibility — without bosses, titles, or promotions.”

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P&L Hamel Open-book Review 53

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

I'd bet, given recent events in the markets, like many, you'd like to get to the bottom of what the heck is really going on here. But the market turmoil we've witnessed in the past few days might should not have been a surprise — and wasn't — to those who have been paying attention. It's been a scary couple of days.

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Crisis Marketing Banking Hamel 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] link] mikemyatt One of my favorite Churchill quotes (of which I have many).

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

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McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Lean daily management systems were pioneered by Toyota, Honda, and other manufacturers. Kelvin Murray/Getty Images.

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Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A fellow business leader complained the other day that although he had repeatedly sought feedback, his team had never told him what they really thought about his management style. Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. Two decades ago, the late C.K.

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Power McTaggart Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better) Technology / Offering (Make different) Strategy/Management (Sell different) Leadership Innovation (Work different) Of these, Hamel suggests that Leadership Innovation provides the greatest competitive advantage over time.

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

Gurus like Don Tapscott , Tammy Erickson , John Hagel , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Gary Hamel , and more recently, Umair Haque , have all written about how our new economy is about producing ideas, experiences, and meaning. We tag performance as the quantitatively focused work of what we can design, market, measure, track, bill, and monetize.

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Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For junior employees, it levels the playing field; for senior or "seasoned" managers, it implies accessibility — a commodity of increasing value in today's social and digital age. As for managers and executives, the flat organization is where it's at. Age and status cease to have a corner on the market.

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Hamel CEO Maturity Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". It is the world's first broad look for statistics underlying Innovation Management practices. In a study by Dr. Rajendra S. and What are our Core Competencies?

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Innovation 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). Strategy/Management (Sell different). Of these, Hamel suggests that Leadership Innovation provides the greatest competitive advantage over time. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures.

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Now, management needs focus on enabling and optimizing the connection, communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In other words, the focus understandably centers on measurably improving the perceived core competence—selling better, manufacturing better, marketing better, hiring even better talent, cutting costs better. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. You're invited to play a real role in influencing the destiny of the company by joining your colleagues in a stock market-based game called "Mutual Fun." As Lavoie describes in his Management 2.0

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

CIOs will need to free up time and resources currently dedicated to traditional IT responsibilities — delivering transactions, infrastructure, technology and code — to focus more on facilitating and accelerating collaboration, choreography, orchestration, and the provisioning, management, monitoring and securing of services.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Gary Hamel and C.K. Apple and Google, of course, have been successful across a variety of market contexts. Managing people' Loose connections. In nature, the purpose of a system is hardwired.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Gary Hamel and C.K. Apple and Google, of course, have been successful across a variety of market contexts. Managing people' Loose connections. In nature, the purpose of a system is hardwired.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Kid Spectrum's previous owner, Arthur Hamel, had told Matthew that Ellen, with nearly two decades of experience in health services, would be one of his biggest assets. So it seemed like a no-brainer to promote him to a formal management role. Managing the Florida-based business from Chicago was proving to be difficult.

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Case Study Insurance Hamel System 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

As Generation Y enters the workforce, its members are undoubtedly having an effect on organizations and management. Some of the most interesting themes emerging from the entries so far: Increasing democratic influence on the appointment of leaders. (" The Organization Structure as Free Market").

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Hamel Management Bottom-up Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Gary Hamel , whose Future of Management is about creating the capacity to live better. Jane Jacobs , the Galileo of urban economics, whose last book Dark Age Ahead might be said to have been a lament for the loss of eudaimonia, and a warning of the fatality of opulence.

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GDP Hamel Industry Construction 22