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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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End of Management
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2509BC-EGiven how little the practice of management has changed over the past several decades, it's hardly surprising that most people have a hard time imagining how management might be reinvented. In this chapter, the author considers the evolution of modern management and the challenges managers face in the 21st century, calling for a radical reinvention of management in the years to come. This chapter was originally published as chapter 1 of "The Futu...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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First, Let's Fire All the Managers (Spanish version)
Hamel, GaryArticle HBS-R1112BStrategythe personal mission statement, and the Colleague Letter of Understanding, or CLOU. In a personal mission statement, each employee outlines how he or she will help the company achieve its goals. The CLOU, which must be hammered out every year with colleagues, is an operating plan for fulfilling it. A CLOU covers as many as 30 activity areas and spells out relevant performance metrics. The system isn't without its challenges, and it isn't for eve...Starting at €8.20
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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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Becoming a Management Innovator
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2520BC-EWhile most companies have been hard at work reinventing their business processes over the last decade, few have devoted a similar degree of energy and imagination to reinventing their management processes. Proving there are exceptions to the rule, this chapter focuses on IBM and Best Buy, organizations that have turned revolutionary management thinking into practice. This chapter was originally published as chapter 10 of "The Future of Management...Starting at €8.20
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Agenda for Management Innovation
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2511BC-EIn this chapter, the author identifies some roadblocks to innovation, and suggests that in order to maximize the chances for precedent-breaking management innovation, managers should devote themselves to a problem that is consequential and inspiring, essential and laudable. This chapter was originally published as chapter 3 of "The Future of Management."Starting at €8.20
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Forging Management 2.0
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2523BC-EIsolated initiatives and one-time projects are no substitute for a sustained, companywide campaign of breakthrough management innovation. This chapter is designed to help you sketch out a blueprint for making management innovation less of an aberration and more of a systematic capability. This chapter was originally published as chapter 11 of "The Future of Management."Starting at €8.20
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Escaping the Shackles: Imagining the Future of Management
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2516BC-EWhen your company is deeply conventional and has been for decades, how do you get the ball rolling? This chapter discusses how to wage war against precedent to encourage breakthrough management thinking. This chapter was originally published as chapter 7 of "The Future of Management."Starting at €8.20
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Ultimate Advantage: Why Management Innovation Matters
Hamel, Gary; Breen, BillBook Chapter HBS-2510BC-EThis chapter provides a detailed examination of management innovation, which, compared to other kinds of innovation, has an unmatched power to create dramatic and enduring shifts in competitive advantage. This chapter was originally published as chapter 2 of "The Future of Management."Starting at €8.20