Gary Hamel
Visiting Professor of London Business School
Gary Hamel is Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School and Director of the Management Lab. He is also the Innovation Architect at the MIX, where he oversees the site's strategic direction.
Hamel's landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. His latest book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year. The Wall Street Journal recently ranked him as the world's most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him "the world's leading expert on business strategy."
Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review's history. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and many other leading publications around the world. He speaks frequently at the world's most prestigious management conferences, and is a regular contributor to CNBC, CNN, and other major media outlets.
Hamel is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society. He lives in Northern California.Blog Posts by Gary Hamel
The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge: Creating Inspired, Open, and Free Organizations
Co-authored by Colin Price.
In their new book, Beyond Performance: How great organizations build ultimate competitive advantage, Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health:
What Makes Apple Apple
The following is an excerpt from Gary Hamel's forthcoming book, What Matters Now, to be published in December 2011 by Jossey-Bass Business.
In 1997 I bought an e-tablet from A.T. Cross, the pen company. Codeveloped with IBM, the CrossPad was hailed as a breakthrough product that would open up a whole new category--portable digital notepads. I'm a copious notetaker, so the idea of turning my scribblings into digital files was too good to ignore.
In 1997 I bought an e-tablet from A.T. Cross, the pen company. Codeveloped with IBM, the CrossPad was hailed as a breakthrough product that would open up a whole new category--portable digital notepads. I'm a copious notetaker, so the idea of turning my scribblings into digital files was too good to ignore.
Nine Ways to Identify Natural Leaders
The need to empower natural leaders isn’t an HR pipedream, it’s a competitive imperative. But before you can empower them, you have to find them.
In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record—it’s easy to discover who’s in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don’t appear on any organization chart. To hunt them down, you need to know . . .
Unshackling Employees
In a WSJ post I promised that I’d lay out a blueprint for building a company that’s as nimble as change itself—and I will, but first I’d like to share an anecdote about a simple experiment in workplace freedom.
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Gary Hamel: What do managers dream about?
Gary Hamel introduces the Management Moonshots — and invites all managers to dream big.
Gary Hamel: What do managers dream about?
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Gary Hamel introduces the Management Moonshots — and invites all managers to dream big.
Gary Hamel: Management 2.0 Hackathon Basics
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Gary Hamel explains the main stages of the Management 2.0 Hackathon.
Gary Hamel: Welcome to the Management 2.0 Hackathon
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An introduction to the basic ideas behind the Management 2.0 Hackathon.
Beyond Performance: Recipes for health
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Gary Hamel talks with Scott Keller and Colin Price, authors of Beyond Performance: How Organizational Health Delivers Ultimate Competitive Advantage, about the different types of healthy organizations and the various ways that managers can motivate employees within them. The book, which aims to bring more rigor and analytical discipline to organizational behavior, draws on the authors' work as partners with McKinsey & Company's Organization practice.
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Me In Three
- I love big, vibrant cities and the quiet outdoors—so I feel lucky to be able to split my time between London and the Santa Cruz mountains in California. Cities are a great source of inspiration, and the forest and ocean are ideal venues for contemplation. I need both—maybe you do, too.
- I’m a golfer. I know that is SO uncool. And it gets worse. I know of no other “sport” where the ratio of adrenaline over time is lower, nor where the correlation between intent and outcome is so close to zero. The fact that I golf testifies, I fear, to some deep, masochistic streak in my personality.
- Another admission: I get a kick out of being a contrarian—a fact that drives my friends and colleagues a little bit crazy. Turns out, people don’t always appreciate it when you take a crowbar to their unexamined beliefs—I know I don’t. Challenging conventional wisdom is dirty work, but someone has to do it.
