Gary Hamel
Visiting Professor of London Business School
The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.”
Hamel’s landmark books, which have been translated into more than 20 languages, include Competing for the Future, Leading the Revolution and The Future of Management (selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year). His latest book, What Matters Now, was published in 2012.
Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 17 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 writes an occasional blog for the Wall Street Journal.
Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School, where he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management.
As a consultant and management educator, Hamel has worked for companies as diverse as General Electric, Time Warner, Nestle, Shell, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, 3M, IBM, and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation” have changed the practice of management in companies around the world.
Hamel speaks frequently at the world’s most prestigious management conferences, and is a regular contributor to CNBC, CNN, and other major media outlets. He has also advised government leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness.
Currently, Hamel is leading a pioneering effort to reinvent management by harnessing the power of open innovation. The Management Innovation Exchange (MIX) is an online community where the world’s most progressive business leaders share their ideas on how to build organizations that are fit for the future and fit for human beings. The MIX is supported by a network of strategic partners, which includes McKinsey & Company, the Harvard Business Review and others.
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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My Videos
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?
by Gary Hamel
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Gary Hamel introduces the Management Moonshots — and invites all managers to dream big.
Gary Hamel: Management 2.0 Hackathon Basics
by Gary Hamel
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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
by Gary Hamel
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An introduction to the basic ideas behind the Management 2.0 Hackathon.
Gary Hamel: Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment
by Gary Hamel
16:43
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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.
