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Obstacles to create a company where everyone gives their best: too much exhortation, too little purpose

2008-07-10

Gary Hamel, the author of The Future of Management, lays out an agenda for management innovation. Obstacles to create a company where people gives their best.

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Obstacles to create a company where everyone gives their best: too much hierarchy, too little community

Gary Hamel argues in his latest book entitled “The Future of Management” that an obstacle to create a company where people give their best is too much hierarchy, too little community.

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Too Much Management, Too Little Freedom: An Obstacle to Create a Company where everyone Gives their Best

Gary Hamel writes in his “The Future of Management” that “Anyone who has ever run a university, a film studio, or an open source software project will tell you that getting the most out of people seldom means managing them more, and usually means managing them less.”

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Management Challenges: Creating a Company Where Everyone Gives their Best

Gary Hamel writes in The Future of Management that “Management principles and processes that foster discipline, punctuality, economy, rationality, and order, yet place little value on artistry, nonconformity, originality, audacity, and elan. To put it simply, most companies are only fractionally human because they make room for only a fraction of the qualities and capabilities that make us human.”

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Innovation with an eye: Keeping close to the action

Tom Kelley, with Jonathan Littman wrote in “The Art of Innovation”: ‘Whether it’s art, science, technology, or business, inspiration often comes from being close to the action. That’s part of why geography, even in the Internet age, counts. And why so many high-tech companies have emerged from Silicon Valley-and not Connecticut or even New York”

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How Enron, Cisco and some other companies created new market space by looking across time

Creating new market space by looking across time: the case of Enron, Cisco, CNN and HBO

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How Apple leaped forward by looking across time

Apple observed that the trend toward digital music was clear. This trend was underscored by the fastgrowing demand for MP3 players that played mobile digital music, such as Apple’s hit iPod. Apple capitalized on this decisive trend with a clear trajectory by launching the iTunes online music store in 2003.

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