What matters now : how to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation / Gary Hamel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamel, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Organizational change.

Organizational effectiveness.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it-to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work. Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented is th

Contents:

What Matters Now; Contents; Preface; SECTION 1: Values Matter Now; 1.1 Putting First Things First; 1.2 Learning from the Crucible of Crisis; 1.3 Rediscovering Farmer Values; 1.4 Renouncing Capitalism's Dangerous Conceits; 1.5 Reclaiming the Noble; SECTION 2: Innovation Matters Now; 2.1 Defending Innovation; 2.2 Cataloging the World's Greatest Innovators; 2.3 Inspiring Great Design; 2.4 Turning Innovation Duffers into Pros; 2.5 Deconstructing Apple; SECTION 3: Adaptability Matters Now; 3.1 Changing How We Change; 3.2 Becoming an Enemy of Entropy; 3.3 Diagnosing Decline

3.4 Mourning Corporate Fail3.5 Future-Proofing Your Company; SECTION 4: Passion Matters Now; 4.1 Exposing Management's Dirty Little Secret; 4.2 Putting Individuals Ahead of Institutions; 4.3 Building Communities of Passion; 4.4 Reversing the Ratchet of Control; 4.5 Reinventing Management for the Facebook Generation; SECTION 5: Ideology Matters Now; 5.1 Challenging the Ideology of Management; 5.2 Managing Without Hierarchy; 5.3 Escaping the Management Tax; 5.4 Inverting the Pyramid; 5.5 Aiming Higher; Appendix: The Half Moon Bay ''Renegade Brigade''; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-266) and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613425249

9781118219089

1118219082

9781283425247

1283425246

9781118219157

1118219155

9781118219164

1118219163

OCLC:

772844558