Overview

As Hamel points out, traditional management is uncongenial to innovation. “Most of our management rituals were invented a long time ago to promote discipline, control alignment and predictability—all laudable goals.” But the resulting processes are fundamentally at odds with innovation. “In most organizations,” Hamel writes, “innovation happens ‘despite the system’ rather than because of it. That’s a problem because innovation is the only sustainable strategy for creating long-term value.”—Steve Denning

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What's Your Mental Model Of Innovation?

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance "We owe our existence to innovation," writes Gary Hamel in his wonderful new book, What Matters Now.

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