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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
by
Gary Hamel
This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition.This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impas...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
February 1st 2012
by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley
(first published November 15th 2011)
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May 20, 2013
Soundview Executive Book Summaries
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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...more
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...more
The major concepts that Hamel brings attention to throughout his book are things that can also apply to life not just management. Self-interest is something that is not only within companies. Most people only think about themselves most of the time in different aspects of life. Usually the more individually competitive someone is the more they are only interested in their success rather then the group’s success. He explains how success comes with being interested in the success of the people wor...more
Algo que deja muy en claro el libro “What Matters Now” de Gary Hamel es que la única constante es el cambio. El mundo se transforma a pasos agigantados y muchas de las empresas, líderes, modelos e incluso regímenes sociales cayeron o se alzaron en un transcurso menor a 10 años. La tierra vive una revolución social y un ambiente de descontento que no tiene precedentes históricos comparables. Es por esta razón que el autor desempolva los valores fundamentales necesarios para sobrevivir y prosperar...more
Apr 02, 2012
Keith Kendall
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Recommends it for:
People interested in improving business
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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). Appl...more
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). Appl...more
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...more
Gary Hamel has found really interesting examples from very different kind of organizations all around the world to demonstrate how managem...more
Gary Hamel outlines key mindsets, traits and behaviors for modern-day corporations to stay relevant. A page-turner of a business book, it offers us a mantra to live by, something that gets us to our core reason for creating and operating an enterprise.
If you've wondered what all the fuss is about in terms of collaboration, exploiting and triumphing turbulent change, becoming a more adaptable and responsive organization...look no further.
Sure to become a management classic.
If you've wondered what all the fuss is about in terms of collaboration, exploiting and triumphing turbulent change, becoming a more adaptable and responsive organization...look no further.
Sure to become a management classic.
Jul 08, 2012
Alexandrea
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Gary Hamel is a bit too fond of the words 'hubris' and 'myopia'. Other than that, he puts together a rather concise assessment of existing flaws in the management practices of many companies today, and presents a plan on how to stay ahead. There are a few very interesting examples of unconventional management practices that already exist. It's also nice that this is a very recent book and provides a nice contrast to some other works that might by now be several decades old.
"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.)"
Despite an awkward start to the book, this has some great methods for applying innovation in organisations., giving great insight into the growing management gap between companies that "get it" and those that are failing to adapt to new social dynamics.
Section 1 is a rant that doesn't really fit the rest of the book. Suggest it is avoided!
Section 1 is a rant that doesn't really fit the rest of the book. Suggest it is avoided!
Good book, but some weird examples... How can you compare how churches manage change with how businesses manage change?? In my business, there are market forces at work, in a church you have social forces leading to church extinction... if the church goes belly up, there are no shareholders who lose money, very few people lose their jobs, etc. He also takes a crack at atheists for no apparent reason, which I didn't like. But amidst all that nonsense, there is a lot of really good and interesting...more
A thought provoking and inspiring read that makes a strong case for opening a business up to innovation. Well written as you would expect but an easy read.
If you regularly keep in touch with the latest business thought, you won't find anything new here. What you'll get is an overview of the five main areas that matter in businesses now coupled with some deeper insights from Hamel than you'll find in other places. It's worth the read.
one of the more interesting of my B school reads.
What matters now shows for us what people need in their life that what will let u think in a correct way to built a successful organisation I recommend this book for u if u want to start new business it will help u to success in it
Great book on managing through autonomy and freedom in order to stimulate innovation. I highly recommend this book to whomever is in a management roll.
Nothing really new but presented very nicely and concisely with many very good examples. Exceptions where the church examples. They did not really convince me.
Required reading for anyone who would lead people into the 21st century business jungle.
Jun 17, 2013
Dušan Vystrčil
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Dr. Gary P. Hamel is an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.
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