When Is New Not New?
I have been immersed in Gary Hamel and Bill Breen’s The Future of Management, agreeing with much of what I am reading and also thinking, ‘Well yes, we know that”.
Competitive Advantage
Professor Hamel says that management innovation yields competitive advantage when:
the innovation is based on a novel management principle that challenges some [...]
It’s Time!
OK, I am about to conduct an experiment with myself and I invite anyone who wishes to join in. What I want to do is critique the The Future of Management, by Gary Hamel (with Bill Breen) as I read it.
I am well aware that I may well be inviting egg on my face, [...]
Repeated Financial Crises
One of the books I am reading just now, written in 1954 and revised in 1975, is J.K. Galbraith’s The Great Crash 1929. In the foreword, he described the resurgence of financial instability in the 1960’s as memories faded. Wall Street had a “day of reckoning” in 1970.
According to Professor Galbraith, leverage in [...]