I got a digital review copy via NetGalley. Gary Hamel has been one of my favorite authors and management guru’s. In his most recent book Humanocracy, he lays out the case against bureaucracy and instead argues that we need to embrace what he calls “Humanocracy” as in build human centric organisations. He chronicles some interesting experiments being done worldwide with different management philosophies and based on them, posits some principles which when put in use can lead organisations to beco...

Takeaways from reading the book:Why do we need humanocracy?- Pages 33 and 40: Change is increasing. The acceleration of change is the product of radical shifts in the growth of computational power and network capacity. Since 1990, the power of mobile phones has increased thousands of times, and global Internet traffic has increased millions of times. Every day, more than 700,000 hours of new content gets uploaded to YouTube.- Page 35: Unlike human beings, organizations are not good at adapting t...

This book presents a very good case against bureaucracy. Full of insights supported by comprehensive data, this also provides a very good alternative: humanocracy.This is the first time I’ve encountered the word humanocracy. But applying the meaning used for democracy, I could assume that this means human power. Now this concept does not necessarily taken with political undertones as it applies to states. Rather the book explains the concept as it applies to business organizations in particular....

Brilliant and inspiring Actually one of the best reading I did in the last years. I knew Hamel for his provocative and inspiring contributions. Together with Michele Zanini he has created something that provides many ideas and, above all, invites readers to take the initiative in such a complex, but also so promising moment. Five stars well deserved.

Fantastic look into organizations that decentralize, treat their teams like humans, develop innovative processes, and work to eliminate bureaucracy. While I disagree with the negative tone used to portray the HR department/function of an organization this book is worth the read. The mindset alone will be critical for the success of future firms.

Gary Hamel as done it again, staying in the forefront of management thinking with Humanocracy. I was an enormous fan of his The Future of Management, where he made the case that management theory has stopped evolving (we’re still using theories from the late 19th century to mid-20th century. Humanocracy goes a step further by taking direct aim at bureaucracy, and it’s about time someone drove a dagger into the heart of this structure that inhibits human creativity and economic dynamism. I love t...

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While the idea of bureaucracy and how it hinders organizational resilience and innovation isn't new, the book does a great job of laying out the costs. Not only does it provide a convincing inditement of traditional organizational practices, but it offers a set of compelling alternatives. And, more importantly and more distinctively when it comes to a management book, it provides some interesting pathways to busting bureaucracy--at the level of the individual (detox for bureaucrats!), team, and

Love his perspective!

3.5 stars based on the ideas in the book rather than the writing. The first half of the book is less useful (why bureaucracy doesn’t work, hit you over the head repeats, slow reading ) compared to the second half w examples of alternative organizations, specific examples.

I picked this up on the recommendation of Adam Grant, one of my favourite authors. There were some really great ideas in here - distributed responsibility, prioritising expertise over rank etc. But it felt somewhat dated and clunky for a tech setting. The examples of steel industries and AC companies were illustrative but were at times tangential for a modern technology company. I rarely complain of a book being boring, but I’m afraid this one felt so, because of the endless lists of attributes

Well sone nice ideasBut some of it was redundant with what we do today. Most technical staff doesn’t do that much bureaucratic stuffSome of it sounds like “agile” not newDifficult part figuring out how I can use tots informationAfter a while I got kind of bored with the bookRegarding flattening organizations and paying based on success: I can see pluses and minuses. Hiring might get tricky because people demand different market rates partly because of experience. People expect increased prestige...

Well written, forward looking, innovative. It's that rare business/management book that isn't cheesy and justifies the genre.

I think in setting up a company or rethinking a work stream, this book is a fascinating overview of successful company’s who have put power back into the hands of employees.

Loved all the stories in various industry, and most importantly how to assess your enterprise, and recipes on how to change from bureaucracy to humanocracy.Table of ContentsPreface ixPart 1 The Case for Humanocracy: Why Poke the Bureaucratic Beehive?1 Fully Human 32 Bureaucracy in the Dock 233 Counting the Cost 43Part 2 Humanocracy in Action: Can We Really Go Bureaucracy-Free?4 Nucor: Building People Not Products 655 Haier: Everyone an Entrepreneur 85Part 3 The Principles of Humanocracy: What's

A call to action with inspiring case studiesI love the Bureaucracy Mass Index and the term Bureausclerosis. Hamel and Zanini have a way with words. The book is a call to action, calling for radical change of organizations and management. A call to abandon the outdated bureaucratic model and adopt a human-centric, customer focused and agile model that is fit for 21 century organizations. The best part of the book is the cases from Haier, Nucor, Svenska Handelsbanken and other companies. The first...

Hamel uses the word bureaucracy as a placeholder for all the different practices, structures and concepts that make organizations fail. His lack of rigour shows off again in the chapter on meritocracy, confusing concepts that are well established. Another management guru book with some nice stories but not very useful. 

Reads more as an anti-bureaucracy book rather than a book that shapes a credible new management model to replace bureaucracy. Enjoyed the stories about bureaucracy detox and corporate “hacktivists” and I’m waiting for the next book that better shapes the new management model.

As the world continues to navigate the current climate of uncertainty, fueled by the ongoing pandemic and increasing demands for equity, never has the case for building decentralized, autonomous organizations been more acute. In their bestselling book, Humanocracy: Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini have artfully detailed brilliant case studies of successful transformations built based on the fundamental principles of community. These case

The tonality could be more uplifting as the negativity doesn't lend itself well to have readers persist.And if you could break through the first 3 chapters the book starts to open itself up.Inter spread within with samples of companies that did very well in reducing bureaucracy, the author still stepped back into complaining mode. But I can understand the frustration; especially the irony of bureaucracy in academia, and why institutions of higher learning who are suppose to have experts in their...