- Hardcover: 347 pages
- Publisher: Harvard Business School Press; illustrated edition edition (Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1578511895
- ISBN-13: 978-1578511891
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 498,487 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
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A world-renowed business thinker and author of "Competing for the Future" now brings an action plan to ignite business people who worry that their companies might be caught flat-footed by the future. To thrive in the age of revolution, Hamel maintains we must adopt a radical new innovation agenda and harness the imagination of every employee. Full color.
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Not everybody is a revolutionary,
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This review is from: Leading the Revolution (Harvard Business School Press) (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:
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revolutionary?,
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This review is from: Leading the Revolution (Harvard Business School Press) (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.
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This review is from: Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life (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
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