Future of Management

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence technology breakthroughs or new business models but management innovation--new ways of mobilizing talent allocating resources and formulating strategies. Through history management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. <p/>In <i>The Future of Management</i> Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever. Why? The management paradigm of the last century--centered on control and efficiency--no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. To thrive in the future companies must reinvent management. <p/>Hamel explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator revealing: <p/>The make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of relentless head-snapping change.<br>The toxic effects of traditional management beliefs.<br>The unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in modern management pioneers.<br>The radical principles that will need to become part of every company's management DNA.<br>The steps your company can take now to build your management advantage. <p/>Practical and profound <i>The Future of Management</i> features examples from Google W.L. Gore Whole Foods IBM Samsung Best Buy and other blue-ribbon management innovators.