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This revolution business is exhausting work. Over Leading the Revolution's 300 pages, Gary Hamel, chairman of management consultancy Strategos, a London Business School visiting professor and research fellow at Havard, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the death of the corporation and the rise of the new economy. And it's breathless stuff too--"make innovation your enduring capability", "get off the treadmill of incrementation", and "heretics not prophets create revolutions". Hamel has not lost his touch in the years since his genre-defining Competing For the Future: he peppers his text with punchy prose, including the wonderful: "You can't use an old map to find new land."
Leading the Revolution begins by taking us through what Hamel describes as the End of Progress, whereby the evolution of industrial society is seen to be replaced by the revolution of the new economy. This change is underpinned by the rising expectations of the stakeholder economy: it is not enough to beat your last annual earnings, or be better than your competitor--the revolutionary company will be best of breed by every benchmark, nothing less. Failure to do so will leave you vulnerable to the other revolutionaries.
Hamel then sets about describing the road to becoming a revolutionary in your business and turning your business into a revolution. There are no great surprises here--think illogically, go against the grain, ask the wrong questions, be unreasonable in your expectations, it's a cause not a business, listen to the periphery. But taken together, his account builds into a vivid picture of can-do. The only trouble is that to act on even a fraction of his recommendations would exhaust the mightiest of managers. Perhaps that's why, in a revolution, there is only one leader--the rest of us just follow. --Chris Price --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gary Hamel, world-renowned business thinker and coauthor of Competing for the Future, the book that set the management agenda for the 1990s, now delivers an agenda for the twenty-first century with the national bestseller, Leading the Revolution. Fully revised with a new introduction, this book provides an action plan for any company or individual intent on becoming and staying an industry revolutionary. Hamel argues that the fundamental challenge companies face is reinventing themselves and their industries, not just in times of crisis-but continually.
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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a true business guru Hamel has a feel for momentum and what people want to hear. Who wouldn't like to lead the revolution ? However, intrapreneurs or entrepreneurs are scarce. The majority of people are business as usual people. The world would be one big mess if everybody was a 'revolutionary'. Clayt Christensen broke the ice here with his book 'The innovators dilemma that instead of getting into how to make everybody more revolutionary goes into the fact that it is best to separate revolutionary stuff from business as usual. That book should be read in combination with Webs of Innovation by Alexander Loudon. Loudon goes on where Christensen stops, he describes how companies can organize and structure revolutionary stuff.
Conclusion, Hamel's book is entertaining but not realistic.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Hamel doesn't disappoint - his writing is first rate and his guru status justified. For the 'how to' of becoming a corporate activist (Hamel stops well short of this) there's a brilliant book called Change Activist written by somebody who has actually 'been there and done it'. If you finished Hamel thinking 'yes but how' it's highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The only positive point is to find a book that is very nicely wrapped up with a nice design, nice layout, and impressive content LIST....BUT with NO content at all (just very vague page filling, very general information and very general models). It is like reading a bad encyclopedia for juniors (the kind of books you pay too much for). Hype, hot air and a lot of blabla...
Really, anyone with some common sense and thinking can write those up such chapters himself. This book is very far to be revolutionary. If this book helped him to be ranked by the WSJ as world's most influential business thinker then something is serious wrong here. I hope he really wrote better books as this book is an oversized and overpriced rip-off.
Enron as case model is unfortunate choice (year 2000 edition). Imagine Enron throughout the content list and you get a pretty good idea.
Contents
I Facing up the revolution
1 The end of progress
2 Rising expectations, diminishing returns
II Find the revolution
3 Business concept innovation
4 Be your own seer
III Igniting the revolution
5 Corporate rebels
6 Go ahead! Revolt!
IV Sustaining the revolution
7 Gray-Haired revolutionaries
8 Design rules for innovation
9 The new innovation solution
Really, anyone with some common sense and thinking can write those up such chapters himself. This book is very far to be revolutionary. If this book helped him to be ranked by the WSJ as world's most influential business thinker then something is serious wrong here. I hope he really wrote better books as this book is an oversized and overpriced rip-off.
Enron as case model is unfortunate choice (year 2000 edition). Imagine Enron throughout the content list and you get a pretty good idea.
Contents
I Facing up the revolution
1 The end of progress
2 Rising expectations, diminishing returns
II Find the revolution
3 Business concept innovation
4 Be your own seer
III Igniting the revolution
5 Corporate rebels
6 Go ahead! Revolt!
IV Sustaining the revolution
7 Gray-Haired revolutionaries
8 Design rules for innovation
9 The new innovation solution
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One to revisit
I bought the first edition of this book way back in 2000 - the version with all the references to Enron in it and the (at the time) funky graphics. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2010 by Steven Buckley
A Roadmap for Innovation
Many CEOs and leaders talk about the need for innovation but do not know where to start. They should read this book. Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2008 by Paul Sloane
An Operations Manual for Corporate Revolutionaries
Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it prior to reading Hamel's latest book, The Future of Management in which he provides a "guide to inventing... Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2007 by Robert Morris
OK but not as good as others
From the co-author of Competing for the Future and chairman of Strategos, this was one of the best selling books of 2000. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2005 by "innovaro"
Extending to the Limits of Imagination!
Leading the Revolution is an important book of business scholarship. It proposes a higher standard for companies: Constantly establishing and superbly implementing improved... Read more
Published on 20 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
A tour de force guide for shaking organisations to the core
The anecdotal evidence is superb, though it suffers where strongly associated with Enron and a new edition is required to address the recent business events. Read more
Published on 23 May 2002 by Mark Kobayashi-Hillary
A fascinating insight -how to get your ideas off the ground.
Gary Hamel provides many insights as to why business ideas are successful, how to shape them, how to gain support and how to capitalise on them. Read more
Published on 17 May 2001
A basket full of ideas
This book gives you new perspectives on how ideas could be created in organisations. The book makes you start thinking in a different way. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2001 by olof.helin@hds.com
A Revolution Without the Real Innovators?
Leading the Revoultion highlights the need for companies to move with the times and make essential internal changes to ensure a competitive edge in the global market place. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2001
Ideal for conservative businessmen
A serious business book that reads as a novel. It will inspire management to become more open minded and eager to search for innovative ideas at every level in the organisation. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2000
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