Gary Hamel

Biography

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." For the last three years, Hamel has also topped Executive Excellence magazine`s annual ranking of the most sought after management speakers.

Hamel`s landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. His latest book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year.

Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review`s history. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and many other leading publications around the world.

Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School where he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management.

As a consultant and management educator, Hamel has worked for companies as diverse as General Electric, Time Warner, Nokia, Nestle, Shell, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, 3M, IBM, and Microsoft. His pioneering concepts such as "strategic intent," "core competence," "industry revolution," and "management innovation" have changed the practice of management in companies around the world.

Hamel speaks frequently at the world`s most prestigious management conferences, and is a regular contributor to CNBC, CNN, and other major media outlets. He has also advised government leaders on matters of innovation policy, entrepreneurship and industrial competitiveness.

At present, Hamel is leading an effort to build the world`s first "Management Lab." The MLab is a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which progressive companies and world renowned management scholars work together to co-create "tomorrow`s best practices" today. The goal: to radically accelerate the evolution of management knowledge and practice.

Hamel is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society. He lives in Northern California.

Publications

The Future of Management

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation - new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages.

In "The Future of Management", Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever. Why? The management paradigm of the last century - centered on control and efficiency - no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. To thrive in the future, companies must reinvent management.

Hamel explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator, revealing: the make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of relentless, head-snapping change; the toxic effects of traditional management beliefs; the unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in `modern management pioneers`; the radical principles that will need to become part of every company`s `management DNA`; and, the steps your company can take now to build your `management advantage`. Practical and profound, "The Future of Management" features examples from Google, W.L. Gore, Whole Foods, IBM, Samsung, Best Buy, and other blue-ribbon management innovators.

Titles

Continuous Management Innovation: What, Why and How?

The Quest for Resilience

Thinking Like a Revolutionary

Innovation from Everyone, Every Day

Competing for the Future

A Company that Is as Nimble as Change Itself

Strategic Flexibility

The Ultimate Competitive Advantage