The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.”
Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School and Distinguished Professor at Harvard University School of Business, Gary Hamel has become the most influential thinker in business management, with some 50 presentations a year and a business of consultancy of 3,000 million a year.
He has published eight articles in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), three of them awarded the McKinsey Award for best article of the year. Among them is “The Core Competence of the Corporation”, which is the most widely read article by the HBR in its entire history.
With his professor in Michigan and friend C.K. Prahalad (recently deceased) published “Competing for the Future” in 1994, a book that turned strategy around as we had understood it until now, and was considered the management book of the year.
Hamel says that if he hadn’t written “Competing for the Future” and “Redefining the Strategy,” the Strategic Management experts probably would have had to find another job. In his award-winning HBR article in 1996, “Strategy as Revolution”, he criticizes strategy as an elitist procedure for following the rules of the sector, and considers it as synonymous with revolution.
In his most recent work “Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them,” Gary Hamel argues that in the age of turmoil, top-down power structures and management systems stifled by rules are a drag. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. It also defends the need for organizations to be bold, entrepreneurial and as agile as change itself. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy presents a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspirational and resourceful as the human beings within them.
In his lectures he uses some frequent examples such as the case of Charles Schwab in the financial sector and that of Wal-Mart in distribution. The problem in companies, Hamel repeats, is not a shortage of resources, but a shortage of imagination. Hamel is one of the world’s most sought-after management speakers on the topics of strategy, leadership, innovation and change.