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The Future of Management | [Gary Hamel, Bill Breen]
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    7 hrs and 52 mins
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    01-10-08
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Publisher's Summary

What really fuels long-term business success?

Not operational excellence or new business models, but management innovation: new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and building strategies. Over the past century, breakthroughs in the "technology of management" have enabled a few companies, including General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, and Visa, to cross new performance thresholds and build long-term advantages. Yet most companies lack a disciplined process for radical management innovation.

World renowned business sage Gary Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model, centered on control and efficiency, no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. In his most provocative book to date, Hamel takes aim at the legacy beliefs preventing 21st-century companies from surmounting new challenges. With incisive analysis and vivid illustrations, he explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator, and reveals:

  • The make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of head-snapping change
  • The toxic effects of our legacy-management beliefs
  • The unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in a handful of pioneering organizations
  • The new principles every company must weave into its management DNA
  • The Web's potential to obliterate smokestack management practices
  • The actions your company can take now to build its own management advantage

    Get ready to throw off the shackles of yesterday's management dogma. Tomorrow's winners will be those companies that start inventing the future of management today.

    ©2007 Gary Hamel; (P)2008 Gildan Media Corp

    • What the Critics Say

    "Like many great inventions, management practices have a shelf life....Gary Hamel explains how to jettison the weak ones and embrace the ones that work. (Fortune)
    "There's much here that will resonate with forward-thinking managers." (BusinessWeek)

    Customer Reviews

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    • 5 of 6 people found this review helpful.
      "Not my bag"
      By Tim (oakville, ON, Canada) Jan 21, 2008
      I had high hopes for this book, but it reads like the author had a thesaurus by his side and the narrator would have been more bearable had he used his best "Charles Emerson Winchester III" impression. At least that would have made it more entertaining. Seriously dry and overladen with fast-talking multiple adjectives and overused rhetorical buzzwords, management has never been this dull.
    • 4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
      "Extremely Helpful"
      By Mort (Rego Park, NY, United States) Jan 30, 2008
      A Fascinating look at how management is changing. I found this audio to be a great listen and extremely useful for its specific suggestions and challenges to be innovative.
    • 3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
      "Narration Ruins Excellent Book"
      By Kevin (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) Oct 9, 2008
      This offering is a great example of the axiom that authors are rarely good narrator/readers of their own work. Gary Hamel is a insightful management thinker, and his books are always worth reading. Unfortunately, this audio book is barely worth listening to. The content is excellent (worth 5 stars, although it echoes 2002's "Leading the Revolution"), but Mr. Hamel's reading is awful. It's full of mispronunciations and atrocious diction (bleeve?). This is one of those rare instances where I have to recommend that you buy the book rather the audiobook. Hamel's words on the page have a much greater impact than his words on your iPod.
    • 2 of 3 people found this review helpful.
      "The Future of Management"
      By Marco Antoni (Mexico DFMexico) Feb 25, 2008
      Great book, awful narrator (dry, boring)
    • 1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
      "More inspirational than instructional"
      By Drew (USA) Dec 3, 2008
      Discussing how Whole Foods, Google and Gore are leading the management revolution was very inspirational. Hamel discusses in detail how these companies engage in what may seem unorthodox to traditional minded corporate folk. The book makes you think, how can I bring about management innovation at my company, and that's the idea behind the book. In this way the book delivers perfectly. However inspiration doesn't always translate into action. For the listener its difficult to put the lessons learned from this book into action. This book would serve an executive well, someone who has the authority and the ability to affect change at a governance level. If you're a mid level manager who is disillusioned with your company's management style and structure, you'll only be inspired to go work for Whole Foods, Google, or Gore.
      I liked the book and anyone who is inspired by it will incorporate some of its principles when they go on to become executives. I enjoyed it.
    • 0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
      "Excelent! A "MUST READ" book"
      By Ivan (MAson, OH, USA) Dec 4, 2009
      An excellent approach for future of leadership and management. A challenge to today practices, with good examples of today's innovators.

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