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Quest for Resilience
Hamel, Gary; Valikangas, LiisaArticle HBS-R0309C-EStrategyIn less turbulent times, executives had the luxury of assuming that business models were more or less immortal. Companies always had to work to get better, but they seldom had to get different--not at their core, not in their essence. Today, getting different is the imperative. It's the challenge facing Coca-Cola as it struggles to raise its "share of throat" in noncarbonated beverages. It's the task that bedevils McDonald's as it tries to restar...Starting at €8.20
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The End of Bureaucracy
Hamel, Gary; Zanini, MicheleArticle HBS-R1806C-ELeadership and People ManagementWhile most business leaders recognize that bureaucracy squashes initiative, risk taking, and creativity, it continues to thrive. In a complex global environment, it's seen as a necessary coping mechanism. Many look to start-ups for an answer. But the most promising solution may have emerged in an unlikely place: the world's largest appliance maker, Haier. Under a renegade CEO, it has been divided into 4,000 self-managing microenterprises. About 2...Starting at €8.20
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Moon Shots for Management
Hamel, GaryArticle HBS-R0902H-EIn May 2008, a group of management scholars and senior executives worked to define an agenda for management during the next 100 years. The so-called renegade brigade, led by Gary Hamel, included academics, such as C.K. Prahalad, Peter Senge, and Jeffrey Pfeffer; new-age thinkers, like James Surowiecki; and progressive CEOs, such as Whole Foods' John Mackey, W.L. Gore's Terri Kelly, and IDEO's Tim Brown. What drew them together was a set of shared...Starting at €8.20
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First, Let's Fire All the Managers
Hamel, GaryArticle HBS-R1112B-EExecutives don't realize it, but a hierarchy of managers exacts a hefty tax on any organization: Managers are expensive, increase the risk of bad decisions, disenfranchise employees, and slow progress. In fact, management may be the least efficient activity in any company. Yet it's clear that market mechanisms alone can't provide the degree of coordination and control that many companies require. Is there any way to get the flexibility of a marke...Starting at €8.20
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Harnessing Everyday Genius
Hamel, Gary; Zanini, MicheleArticle HBS-R2004F-EStrategyThe view of manual employees as mindless machines dates back to the Industrial Revolution, when most workers were poorly educated, and was entrenched by Frederick Taylor, whose bureaucratic model institutionalized a caste system of thinkers and doers thatStarting at €8.20