BUSTING BUREAUCRACY WITH HUMANOCRACY: GARY HAMEL & MICHELE ZANINI

IN THIS BIG INTERVIEW, LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSOR, GARY HAMEL, AND MANAGEMENT EXPERT, MICHELE ZANINI, CO-AUTHORS OF ‘HUMANOCRACY: CREATING ORGANIZATIONS AS AMAZING AS THE PEOPLE INSIDE THEM’, SHARE SOME INSIGHTS ON HOW TO BUST BUREAUCRACY AND HARNESS THE EVERYDAY GENIUS OF WORKERS, AND TELL US HOW STRUGGLING ORGANIZATIONS CAN STAY RESILIENT IN DIFFICULT TIMES BY COMMITTING TO THE 4 MS OF MOTIVATION, MINDSETS, MODELS, AND MIGRATION

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Now, more than ever, we need organizations that are resilient, daring, and inspiring. Unfortunately, the typical organization, overburdened by bureaucracy, is inertial, timid, and dispiriting. We can and must do better. Resilient organizations, great jobs, and zero bureaucracy – that’s the promise of humanocracy, but more than a promise, it’s a reality we can start building today.

In HUMANOCRACY: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them, Professor Gary Hamel and management expert Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better.

Drawing on more than a decade of research, and packed with practical examples, Hamel and Zanini lay out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.

Gary Hamel is a longtime faculty member of the London Business School. He has authored 20 articles for the Harvard Business Review and published five books with Harvard Business Review Press, including The Future of Management (2007), which was named Amazon’s business book of the year. The Wall Street Journal ranked Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, while the Financial Times labeled him a “management innovator without peer”.