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Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel — WisdomDeck honest review
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Leading the Revolution

by Gary Hamel

Hamel's call for business-concept innovation and internal activism, famously using Enron as a positive example before its collapse. The thesis survives the embarrassment; read it with that caveat.

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you want Hamel on radical innovation and can tolerate the Enron problem.

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the Enron chapters would undermine your trust in the rest.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Innovate the business concept, not just the product.
  2. Activists inside companies drive change.
  3. Judge ideas apart from unfortunate examples.

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Sketch one radical variation on your business concept and test it on a customer.

Our verdict

Thesis survives Enron.

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