Chapter 1. MANAGEMENT TODAY

 

Tomorrow's business imperatives lie outside the performance envelope of today's bureaucracy-infused management practices.

 
 --Gary Hamel[11]

"Can you think of a time in your life when you were in a group where everyone was pulling together and the group was vibrantly alive and extraordinarily productive, when it was all for one and one for all? And after it ended—even long after it ended—you went on having reunions with the other people in the group because the experience had been so meaningful? Can you think of a time like that?" I have asked hundreds of people in many countries and all walks of life these questions, and almost all of them could recall at least one such experience.

It might have been in the workplace, ...

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