Humanocracy
by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini
The cost of bureaucracy, measured, and the alternatives: Nucor, Haier, Michelin, Svenska Handelsbanken. Principles of ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation and paradox. Hamel's most thorough argument.
Read it if…
you want a rigorous case against bureaucracy with working examples.
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Skip it if…
you run a small company; bureaucracy is not your problem yet.
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Three things you will actually use
- Bureaucracy costs trillions.
- Micro-enterprises inside the enterprise.
- Hack management from below.
Do this first
Read the Haier chapter.
Our verdict
Against bureaucracy.
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