Gary Hamel: Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment

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Gary Hamel: Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment

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Watch Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel paints a vivid picture of what it means to build organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future—resilient, inventive, inspiring and accountable. "Modern” management is one of humanity’s most important inventions, Hamel argues. But it was developed more than a century ago to maximize standardization, specialization, hierarchy, control, and shareholder interests. While that model delivered an immense contribution to global prosperity, the values driving our most powerful institutions are fundamentally at odds with those of this age—zero-sum thinking, profit-obsession, power, conformance, control, hierarchy, and obedience don’t stand a chance against community, interdependence, freedom, flexibility, transparency, meritocracy, and self-determination. It’s time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends.

This video is an excerpt from the University of Phoenix Distinguished Guest Video Lecture Series.

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February 21, 2012 at 3:17am

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February 10, 2012 at 11:47am

"...profit-obsession, power, conformance, control, hierarchy, and obedience don’t stand a chance against community, interdependence, freedom, flexibility, transparency, meritocracy, and self-determination."

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Maria Stoddard

January 19, 2012 at 10:09am

Thank you for making that video available, as all your others. I enjoyed the multi activity that matched my brain activity...very busy and engaging! Well done.

Jan Robert Johnsen

January 8, 2012 at 8:48am

An absolutely fantastic presentation with a very important topic. I think we need a lot of inspiring talks like this over time to really change things in the big coporations, but all startups and smaller companies has the option to make use of this. The mastodons may die, before they know what hit them!

Digby Howis

October 11, 2011 at 10:34pm

Great video. Thank you Dr Hamel.

My observation is many large corporations and their management want “semi programmable robots” as G. Hamel stated, yet for the last 30 years, scientists have been trying to create a humanized robot. I don’t understand our obsession with re-engineering in this manner. Perhaps an object lesson in irony.

Colleen Carlson

August 4, 2011 at 6:40am

I believe the management style described is present in a Montessori classroom. The result is a person/student with a different perspective than the traditional schooled person. Change education, change the world.

By Maria Montessori - "My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding on that certification from the secondary school to the university, but of individuals passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity, through their own effort of will, which constitutes the inner evolution of the individual."

Oscar Del Santo

July 16, 2011 at 5:38pm

Beautiful and inspiring

Bala Subramanian

June 24, 2011 at 11:48pm

@GaryH: You are right about the management technology and its need to change. Interestingly enough, the management technology you are talking about is applicable only to the industrialized world with large groups of people under a corporate or government banner that has to produce stuff to satisfy its share holders or political boses. I am afraid the mega Military-Industrial complexes are no longer suitable for the future. The future is likely to be largely unorganized and spontaneous. Come to think of it; the title of your video, " the technology of human accomplishment" is in fact, a very small part of human accomplishment. The truth, if you think about it, is: human accomplishments have happened only at the fringes as you correctly mention in your monologue.
Most of Human Accomplishment and the Economic Development have never been "managed" at all; They are mostly un-managed creative efforts of very few people. The industrial model has tried to take those accomplishments and has mass-marketed it. That is all. I am all for the reverse accountability and taking care of the employees first. However, we need to start this at still earlier stages of the societal living with children going to schools and colleges. If you and the others that some merit in my remarks, you might be interested to follow this link : http://www.ucmss.com/main/papersNew/papersAll/EEE4650.pdf

Colleen Carlson

August 4, 2011 at 8:52am

Regarding "However, we need to start this at still earlier stages of the societal living with children going to schools and colleges." I believe the Montessori philosophy and method of education (innovative - still on the fringe after 100 years) is similarly designed and the resulting "product" is distinguishable.

Gus Wilson

June 21, 2011 at 7:25pm

Brilliant, brilliant video.

Ken Carroll

June 16, 2011 at 2:42am

Superb as always.

One suggestion: The designer lost the plot with these visuals. It look slike a toy that ran away with him. There'say too much happening and it's way too busy. It throws you off the message adn when it doesn't it seems to say that everything - everything is of equal importance. But visuals are supposed to emphasize the main themes rather than capture every word. The designer needs ti slow it down and relax.

Bernd Nurnberger

June 12, 2011 at 10:01pm

Awesome. Watched twice. Thank you. Shared in three of my networks.

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Petr Kadlec

June 5, 2011 at 2:51am

Excellent presentation, we all could learn a lot from Gary, how to get our message over to the audience.
My doubts are whether the message is really so valuable as what we would expect from such a reputable speaker.
Is it
"zero-sum thinking, profit-obsession, power, conformance, control, hierarchy, and obedience don’t stand a chance against community, interdependence, freedom, flexibility, transparency, meritocracy, and self-determination"
really new, surprising, eye-opening?
I begin to believe, I luckily can share insights and experience with a rapidly growing community of people focused on to get all this principles to our management (or rather leadership) approach and even into our lives in general - and all that for at least for 1,5 year.
Surprising also is Gary's support for web education - there is a substantial neuroscience support just for the opposite - there is a strong predisposition given by our brain requiring direct (not electronically vicarious) social contact at the EFFICIENT learning process - see for instance long term research of UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London, UK, prof. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore or Kevin Ochsner research at Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Department of Psychology Columbia University and many others.
Let's finally accept, that all human achievement and creativity comes actually from individual people and their thinking (i.e.their brains) to organizations, regardless the frequently changing "breakthrough" concepts which management gurus fabricate.

CEM OZKAL

May 15, 2011 at 10:32pm

A masterpiece in the area of management. I believe the keyword will be "trust" in this new era

Jeff Mackanic

May 15, 2011 at 2:58pm

Wow. Fantastic video. Great combination of Gary speaking and visual representation. Very engaging. Let's go reinvent management !

Timothee Wirth

May 14, 2011 at 8:44pm

Thank you so much for having come up with a marvelous piece of communicaton. The quality of this presentation is a new standard in term of web innovation and education. The educational content and emotional impact will continue to help trigger more new belief and vocation! I have already watched it several times and continue to discover new perspectives.