Gary Hamel is one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers. He has worked with leading companies across the globe and is a dynamic and sought-after management speaker. Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Lab.
Hamel has written 20 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. His landmark books have been translated into more than 25 languages. His most recent bestsellers are Humanocracy and The Future of Management. In these volumes, Hamel presents an impassioned plea for reinventing management and lays out a practical blueprint for building organizations that are “fit for the future.”
Fortune magazine describes Hamel as “the world’s leading expert on business strategy,” and the Financial Times calls him a “management innovator without peer.” Hamel has been ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the world’s most influential business thinker and is a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and of the World Economic Forum.
Hamel’s groundbreaking concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation,” have changed the language and practice of management in organizations around the globe.
Source: Gary Hamel’s website
The best innovations — both socially and economically — come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world.”
Gary Hamel, Innovation starts with the heart, not the head, on Harvard Business Review website (subscribe / register for limited access / contact me)
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Books
Competing for the Future (co-authored with C.K. Prahalad)
Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them (co-authored with Michele Zanini)
Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life
External websites
Gary Hamel (official website)
Innovation starts with the heart, not the head, by Gary Hamel, on Harvard Business Review website (subscribe / register for limited access / contact me)
The New Human Movement | Video series featuring radical thinkers and doers — including Peter Senge, Lynda Gratton and Richard Rumelt — who are reinventing work, leadership, and management
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