Gary Hamel

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Northern California

Gary Hamel is a leading expert on management, recently ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the world's most influential business thinker. 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 20 years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review's history. Since 1983 he has been on the faculty of London Business School, where he is currently Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management.
Hamel's current venture is the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), an open collaboration platform aimed at reinventing management. The MIX brings together CEOs, academics, and management experts with executives and managers -- indeed, anyone with ideas on how to improve the way organizations are managed so that they are fit to compete in 21st century, organizations that are as resilient, inventive and inspiring as the people who work within them.

Authored Content

Three forces disrupting management

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The hole in the soul of business

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Who's really innovative?

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