Gary Hamel

MIX co-founder and leading management thinker Gary Hamel shares his agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change, and ferocious competition.

This talk is about reinventing management as we know it—about rethinking the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work. While the challenges facing organizations are limitless, leadership bandwidth isn't. That's why you have to be clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead? Hamel identifies five issues are that are paramount: values, innovation, adaptability, passion and ideology. In doing so he presents an essential agenda for leaders everywhere.

Over the past century, innovations in management (the methods and processes by which a company organizes, plans, allocates, motivates, compensates, coordinates, etc.) have been a critical source of long-term competitive advantage. Most companies have relatively undifferentiated management models, and derive little if any real competitive advantage from their management practices. Currently, what most limits the performance of large companies is not their operating model nor their business model, but their management model.

In the 21st century, companies face a daunting array of new challenges—e.g. how to change as fast as change itself; how to get innovation from everyone, every day; how to create truly inspiring work environments; how to meet an ever-expanding array of stakeholder demands—that can only be addressed with fundamental management innovation. The companies that win in the future will be those that evolve their management models faster than their competitors.

The most important job for any leader is to design a management architecture that unleashes human capabilities and energizes continuous organizational renewal. With the right training and tools, any manager can become an inspired management innovator.

Learning Outcomes:

• Deep insights into the make-or-break challenges that will define competitive success in the 21st century.
• Experience in surfacing and challenging legacy management beliefs and orthodoxies.
• An understanding of the new management principles that will underlie tomorrow's critical organizational capabilities.
• A set of highly relevant lessons drawn from bleeding-edge management innovators.
• An understanding of the systemic nature of large-scale management innovation.
• A clear set of rules for conducting high-value, low-risk management experiments.
• A personal commitment to helping your company build a "management advantage."

In a world filled with new, ultra-low cost competitors, ever more powerful customers and hyper-competitive markets, innovation is the only way to out-perform the industry average. In a compelling keynote presentation based on 20 years of groundbreaking research and a score of high-profile assignments in some of the world's most respected companies, Hamel shows you and your colleagues how to:

• Unlock the innovation potential of every employee
• Build a portfolio of high-impact, game-changing strategies
• Dramatically multiply the returns on innovation investment
• Build management systems that keep everyone focused on innovation
• Manage the day-to-day tension between innovation and operational efficiency

As the pace of change accelerates so must the pace of strategic renewal in every organization. All too often deep change is crisis-driven and episodic; too seldom is it opportunity-driven and continuous. In this informative keynote speech, Hamel draws on his pioneering work on strategic “resilience” to help your company:

• Recognize the warning signs of “strategy decay”
• Overcome the arrogance and denial that so often frustrates strategic renewal
• Build a future-oriented vision that is powerful enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the past
• Accelerate the shift of resources from legacy programs to future-oriented initiatives
• Weave the principles of resilience into every management process and practice

Over the past 100 years, the most profound and enduring shifts in competitive position have come from management innovation – dramatic breakthroughs in how companies are managed, led and structured. Hamel delivers a thought-provoking keynote speech based on his most recent research. He has developed a methodology that can help your company build the ultimate competitive advantage – an ability to proactively reinvent its management DNA. Specifically, he can show your company how to:

• Anticipate the "over-the-horizon" management challenges that will determine success in the years ahead
• Successfully challenge the outmoded management orthodoxies that limit success
• Uncover the new management principles that will determine industry leadership in the future
• Build a capability for ongoing management innovation across your company