The Economist magazine labels Gary Hamel “the world’s reigning strategy guru.” Fortune calls Hamel “the world’s leading expert on business strategy,” and the Financial Times says Hamel is “a management innovator without peer.”

As the author of such concepts as “core competence”, “strategic intent”, and “industry revolution”, Hamel has changed the language and practice of management around the world. Now, in his boldest book to date, Hamel sets out the agenda for management in the 21st century.

Calling for nothing less than a revolution in how large organizations are structured, managed and led, Hamel provides a clear blueprint for building companies that are:

• As nimble as change itself
• Innovative from top to bottom
• Awe-inspiring places to work

Drawing on his latest research, Hamel demonstrates that it is innovation in management — rather than in operations, products or strategies — that is most likely to create long-term advantage. Building on this insight, he describes in detail how a company can get a head start on the future by building tomorrow’s best practices today.

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Co-authored by Professor Julian Birkinshaw and Research Fellow Michael Moll, “Giant Steps in Management” brings together the world's most influential management innovations, both successful and unsuccessful. It takes on long-standing assumptions about how the work of management is best accomplished and shows how key performance measures, such as employee engagement, customer interaction, and technological innovations, can be improved.

Professor Birkinshaw says: “Our book will put our readers in a position to create tomorrow’s best practice today. It illustrates how to make innovation happen and examines the process through which management innovation comes about.”

“Describing 50 past innovations, including those of companies like Toyota, Procter and Gamble and GE, the book details how management has evolved over the last 150 years and how our readers can make it continue to evolve by being management innovators themselves,” Professor Birkinshaw said.

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