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A combination of agenda for building organizations, call to better management, and of course exemplary cases, for "NOW"; i.e. the post-knowledge creative economy. There's a lot to chew on in this impassioned PSA for the business community.
Waste of time
Excellent, in partsPart 3 was my favorite ...The book is fairly uneven and starts off talking of ethics, morals and challenges of 21st century. It quickly forgets those and talks about resilience of some companies - flexibility, flat systems, distributed setups and more. It then moves into elements of humanocracy and holocracy. It's a book which hasn't yet made up it's mind but overall it still has some meat.
I saw Gary Hamel speak a few weeks back and thoroughly enjoyed his talk.If you're interested in the overall theme of organizational change and development - and the case for progressive (self) management models - Hamel's book is a worthwhile read. I value that he takes a pragmatic view of some innovative ideas while giving clear examples across industries.
I found this book packed with useful information. I'm planning on possibly having some business classes in college and I found this book really furthered my knowledge. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody who is in the business world or trying to get into it. It talks a lot about how to start and run a high efficient business and the organization of one.
No that I would disagree with the author but main thoughts can be written more concisely. There are many unnecessary passages which prolonged the book.
Anyone in new economy and current business world should read.. a concise and practical advice on what really matters now... great read overall...
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel was chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as one of the Top 30 Business Books of 2012.THE SOUNDVIEW REVIEW:When was the last time you analyzed the basic tenets of your company’s approach to management and organizational culture? If your company is like the majority of organizations, you’ve been far too busy fighting tooth and nail for market share to consider revisi...
I can only think of maybe 5 books in my life that I couldn’t finish because of how bad it was. What a complete rambling, pointless, generic waste of time.
Someone recently recommended Gary Hamel's What Matters Now and upon cracking open the Kindle version, my first reaction was to double check the copyright date. It might have been written a decade ago with public anger over the 2008 economic crisis in mind, but it could have easily been written in 2020. My second reaction was why does this guy hate bankers and Fortune 500 companies so much? The more I read, however, the more intriguing I found Hamel's revolutionary vision of business management.O...
I've read this book in 2019, and is still up to date. I think Gary Hamel makes a terrific job in deconstructing standard management practices so we can start to construct them again.
Why are business books such as this one so boring? And why are the writers so bad? Gary Hamel has written interesting stuff, but this book is just awful. Here's the last sentence from page 243, chapter 5.5, "Aiming Higher": "Like a zoo-born lion that knows only its cage, we can't imagine the sweet grasses and blue vistas of an organizational savannah where human beings are actually free to flourish".I mean - seriously?
In less than a dozen pages he lays out his criticism of the current system, and the values needed to improve it. I am impressed - I didn't need to wade through a bunch of fluff to get to his thesis.Hamel observes that there is little agreement on which companies are the greatest innovators. He divides innovators up into 5 categories - Rockets (which probably won't be on the list next year), Laureates, Artistes, Cyborgs (Google, Amazon, Apple), and Born-Again Innovators (P&G, IBM, Ford). Apples l...
I finished the book about a week ago and I'm still bit puzzled, what it was all about. There was so many good things presented there and so many good examples around the world, that it takes time to digest it. Maybe the main message there is, that management practices in use are old and these don't help to get the full potential out of the people in companies.Gary Hamel has found really interesting examples from very different kind of organizations all around the world to demonstrate how managem...
Though I found the first chapter preachie and Gary an excessive sesquipedalian (someone who uses big words), the content and cases Hamel uses are inspiringly convincing. This book is an excellent addition to your library if you want new ideas that inspire employees, balance innovation and efficiency and sustainable growth. Other noteworthy books iinclude - The Connected Company, Maverick, The Fifth Element, Tribal Leadership
This makes me want to reinvent the way every bureaucracy in the world is structured. A return to putting humans first in your enterprise, and encouraging individual contributions rather than systematized control. If all managers and leaders around the world gave these theories some thought, we'd have a flourishing economy AND some really happy individuals at jobs. I am stoked to be digging in on how to introduce some of this thinking at my work.
"A lot to chew on in this book. Loved the Hamel reference to what would be our "Moon Shot" equivalents for reshaping management to align with new realities. Check out www.hackmanagement.com and Mix Tv website for continuing conversations around key questions in the book. Good stuff. (Not for the faint of heart...but you can start with small steps.)"
Ugh! Could. not. finish. The first hour was nothing but soapbox.
Well here are my numbers on these parameters:Avoiding Redundancy: 2/5Case Studies: 3/5Authenticity: 3/5Readability: 2/5Practical: 4/5Quotes: 3/5Well, the book does nothing new when it comes to present day companies and their vision.Most of the companies are working under the guidelines which GARY mentions.Takeaways: The categorization of companies into chunks depending on the level of innovation.Case studies of apple.Cons of the books:The book relies heavily on Apple and the case studies are wha...
What matters the most to your business rising into the market at the very particular time.