What really fuels long-term business success?

Not operational excellence or new business models, but management innovation -- new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and building strategies. Over the past century, breakthroughs in the “technology of management” have enabled a few companies -- including General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, and Visa -- to cross new performance thresholds and build long-term advantages. Yet most companies lack a disciplined process for radical management innovation.

In The Future of Management, world-renowned business sage Gary Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model -- centered on control and efficiency -- no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success.
In his most provocative book to date, Hamel takes aim at the legacy beliefs preventing  twenty-first century companies from surmounting new challenges. With incisive analysis and vivid illustrations, he explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator. Along the way, Hamel reveals:

• The make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of head-snapping change
• The toxic effects of our legacy management beliefs
• The unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in a handful of pioneering organizations
• The new principles every company must weave into its management DNA
• The Web’s potential to obliterate smokestack management practices
• The actions your company can take now to build its own management advantage

Practical and profound, The Future of Management features examples from an elite group of modern management pioneers -- companies that have challenged management dogma and are reaping the rewards.

Get ready to throw off the shackles of yesterday’s management dogma. Tomorrow’s winners will be those companies that start inventing the future of management today.

Gary Hamel is Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School; cofounder of Strategos, an international consulting company; and director of the Management Innovation Lab. He is the author of Leading the Revolution and coauthor of Competing for the Future, two landmark books that have appeared on every management bestseller list. He has also written numerous articles for Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and many other business publications. Hamel lives in Northern California.