What Matters Now How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

by Hamel, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781118120828
• ISBN10: 1118120825
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Critical insight from the man Fortune called ;The world's leading expert on business strategy ;  About the only thing a leader can be sure of is that what worked yesterday is unlikely to work today, let alone tomorrow. Never before have businesses faced a more fractured, contentious and dynamic environment.  If ever there was a need for fundamentally new thinking about values, competition, leadership, organization talent, and how these things are directly tied to management, it is now. Gary Hamel lays out an essential agenda in a world where old nostrums aren't merely useless, but downright toxic.  With brutal honesty, iconoclastic thinking and cutting-edge examples, he outlines a clear approach for leaders everywhere who are eager to move ahead.    Explains how to move from defense to offense, reverse the tide of commoditization, and out-run change  Tackles how to effectively hack management, capture the moral high ground, and foster extraordinary contribution  Written by one of the world's most prescient management experts and the acclaimed author of The Future of Management Concise and to the point, What Matters Now will inspire leaders to rethink their business, their management, and how they lead. 

Author Biography

Noted business thinker and strategist Gary Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for nearly thirty years. He is the founder of the California-based think-tank The Management Lab. His most recent initiative is The Management Innovation eXchange (www.managementexchange.com), a pioneering effort aimed at reinventing management by harnessing the power of open innovation. Hamel is the author of five books and numerous articles for the Harvard Business Review as well as the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and the Financial Times. He consults widely and has led change initiatives in some of the world's most prominent companies.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Values Matter Now	p. 1
Putting First Things First	p. 3
Learning from the Crucible of Crisis	p. 9
Rediscovering Farmer Values	p. 25
Renouncing Capitalism's Dangerous Conceits	p. 29
Reclaiming the Noble	p. 35
Innovation Matters Now	p. 39
Defending Innovation	p. 41
Cataloging the World's Greatest Innovators	p. 45
Inspiring Great Design	p. 55
Turning Innovation Duffers into Pros	p. 61
Deconstructing Apple	p. 73
Adaptability Matters Now	p. 83
Changing How We Change	p. 85
Becoming an Enemy of Entropy	p. 91
Diagnosing Decline	p. 103
Mourning Corporate Failure	p. 111
Future-Proofing Your Company	p. 119
Passion Matters Now	p. 135
Exposing Management's Dirty Little Secret	p. 137
Putting Individuals Ahead of Institutions	p. 145
Building Communities of Passion	p. 153
Reversing the Ratchet of Control	p. 163
Reinventing Management for the Facebook Generation	p. 171
Ideology Matters Now	p. 179
Challenging the Ideology of Management	p. 181
Managing Without Hierarchy	p. 193
Escaping the Management Tax	p. 207
Inverting the Pyramid	p. 233
Aiming Higher	p. 243
Appendix: The Half Moon Bay "Renegade Brigade"	p. 259
Notes	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 267
About the Author	p. 269
Index	p. 271
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