I highly recommend Gary Hamel’s latest book: The Future of Management.
In any field of human endeavour you ultimately reach a point where you can’t solve the new problems using the old principles. Hamel thinks we’ve reached that point in the evolution of management. When you go back to the discipline upon which our modern companies are built: standardisation, specialisation, hierarchy, and so on, you realise that those are not bad principles but are inadequate for the challenges that lie ahead.
Management and organisational innovation often lags far behind technological innovation. Right now, your company has 21st-century, internet-enabled business processes, mid-20th-century management processes, all built atop 19th century management principles. Without a transformation in our management DNA in line with principles I outlined in chapter 8, the power of the web to transform the work of management will go unexploited (Hamel, 2007).
Below you can find a video where Hamel comments on his latest book.
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