The Future of Management
by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen
Hamel's argument that management itself, not just products, must be innovated: cases from Whole Foods, Gore and Google, and principles for rethinking hierarchy, control and motivation. Provocative and ahead of its 2007 date.
Read it if…
you suspect your management model, not your strategy, is the constraint.
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Skip it if…
you want operational advice; this is a reimagining.
Try instead: The Culture Playbook →
Three things you will actually use
- Management innovation is the highest-leverage innovation.
- Hierarchy is a choice, not a law.
- Experiment with how you manage.
Do this first
List the management practices you inherited and ask which actually serve the work.
Our verdict
Provocative and prescient.
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