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Gary Hamel

International Expert on Business Strategy; Professor at London Business School, Consultant & Author of "Humanocracy"

International Expert on Business Strategy; Professor at London Business School, Consultant & Author of "Humanocracy"

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Gary Hamel Biography

Gary Hamel is a private consultant, author, speaker, and visiting professor of strategic management at the London Business School. As an originator of the concept of 'core competencies', a theory he developed with C.K. Prahalad, Hamel has carved a distinct path in the realm of strategic management. His contribution also extends to the nonprofit sector, where he serves as the director of the Woodside Institute, a California-based research foundation. Hamel is the founder of Strategos, an international strategy and innovation consulting firm.

Hamel is acknowledged as an expert in international business strategy by reputable business publications. The "Wall Street Journal" listed him as one of the world's most influential business thinkers, while "Fortune" magazine described him as an unrivaled authority on business strategy. "The Financial Times" hailed him as a unique innovator in management.

His books include "Humanocracy" (2020), "What Matters Now" (2012), "The Future of Management" (2007), "Leading The Revolution" (2000), and "Competing For the Future" (1994). He is committed to shaping the future of management highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing the business world.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/05/2024.

Gary Hamel Speaking Topics

  • Innovation from Everyone, Every Day

    Every human being has within them a creative spark, yet our organizations harness only a fraction of that latent imagination. While 79% of leaders rank innovation as a top priority, 94% say their organizations aren’t as innovative as they need to be. What gives? If innovation is so important, why do most companies struggle with it? Because few of them have taken a systematic approach to making innovation instinctive for every individual and intrinsic to the organization itself. For innovation to become a genuine core competence, organizations must …

    Build creative capital. While most people have creative instincts, it takes practice to learn to think like a gamechanger. You wouldn’t expect someone to hit a golf ball 200 yards down the fairway without a bit of training. So it is with innovation. The quickest way to increase the innovation output of any company is to teach everyone how to upend conventional thinking, intercept emerging trends and invent novel solutions to deep customer needs.

    Re-tool the management model. Over the past decade, many companies re-engineered their operating model for speed and efficiency. Few, though, have retooled their management model for innovation. This is now an imperative. Every management system—planning, resource allocation, performance management, compensation and training—must facilitate rather than frustrate innovation. Companies that fail to take a systematic approach to this challenge will soon find themselves preempted by their competitors and abandoned by their customers.

    Over the past three decades, Gary Hamel has taught hundreds of thousands of individuals how to imagine and build the future. He has also helped many of the world’s most admired companies design and build innovation-friendly management practices. The result: boldly creative teams and billions of dollars added to the top line.

  • Building an Evolutionary Advantage

    The winds of creative destruction are howling. Change is exponential and unrelenting. In this environment, the most important question for any organization is, “Are we changing as fast as the world around us?” Sadly, for many organizations the answer is no. Today, there are many who expect the old guard to lose. After all, in a hyper-kinetic world, resources count for less than resource-fulness, and companies that fall behind tend to stay behind.

    All too often, deep change is the product of crisis—it’s belated, convulsive and typically insufficient. The challenge, then, is to build an organization that can change as fast as change itself, that possesses an “evolutionary advantage.” Such an organization would...

    • Rush out to meet the future.

    • Change before it had to.

    • Consistently redefine customer expectations.

    • Capture more than its share of new opportunities.

    • Avoid unexpected earnings shocks.

    • Consistently out-perform competitors.

    Building an evolutionary advantage requires more than new practices—it also requires new principles. Most organizations were built on the principles of standardization, formalization, specialization, alignment and discipline. These are fine principles, but now we must embrace new principles: experimentation, openness, meritocracy, freedom and audacity. These cannot be mere buzzwords, but must be embedded deeply in structures, systems and behaviors.

    Building an evolutionary advantage may seem like a Herculean task. It’s not. In his pioneering work, Gary Hamel has demonstrated that with courage and tenacity, any company can learn to outrun change.

  • Busting Bureaucracy, For Good

    If you want to win in a world of nimble, hungry upstarts, bureaucracy has to die. Young companies are bold, flexible and quick. Big companies, not so much. Research suggests that an excess of bureaucracy—too many layers and too many rules—costs OECD economies $9 trillion each year in lost economic output. Nevertheless, most struggle to imagine an alternative. Bureaucracy seems essential for achieving the control, coordination and consistency that allow large organizations to function. For decades that was true. Now it is not.

    A growing number of vanguard companies are proving it is possible to buy the benefits of bureaucracy duty-free. On average, these post-bureaucratic trailblazers enjoy a 30-50% productivity advantage over their peers, and are far more fleet-footed. Svenska Handelsbanken, the world’s most consistently profitable bank, has three management layers. Nucor, the highly innovative steel-maker has no central R&D and a head office of fewer than 100 individuals. Haier, a global leader in the appliance industry, has turned itself into a “platform” of 4,000 highly autonomous “micro-enterprises.” Turns out you can be big and fast, efficient and supple, disciplined and courageous.

    For more than a decade, Gary Hamel has been helping progressive-minded organizations “uninstall” bureaucracy. Doing so requires three things…

    • Motivation: Organizations get serious about busting bureaucracy when they start to measure its hidden costs. Every organization needs to calculate its BMI—“Bureaucracy Mass Index.”
    • Models: It’s hard to begin a journey when you can’t imagine the destination. Luckily, the post-bureaucratic pioneers help point us in the right direction.
    • Migration: You don’t build a post-bureaucratic organization with a grand, top-down change program. Instead, you must build migration paths by launching many small, yet radical, experiments designed to test and refine new, “post-bureaucratic” practices. The payoff: an organization that is flat, open and free.

Gary Hamel Videos

  • Unleashing Everyday Genius with John Ferriola
    John Ferriola is the former CEO of Nucor, America's preeminent steelmaker. At Nucor, operating crews take responsibility for business development,...
  • Gary Hamel | To Create an Innovation Advantage
    For organizational leaders to create an innovation advantage they first must create a human advantage. In this presentation Gary Hamel.

Gary Hamel Books

  • Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
    Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
  • What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
    What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
  • Strategic Intent (Harvard Business Review Classics)
    Strategic Intent (Harvard Business Review Classics)
  • Leading the Revolution
    Leading the Revolution

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Gary Hamel is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Innovation from Everyone, Every Day, Building an Evolutionary Advantage and Busting Bureaucracy, For Good. The estimated speaking fee range to book Gary Hamel for your event is $50,000 - $100,000. Gary Hamel generally travels from Santa Cruz, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ray Kurzweil, James Canton, R "Ray" Wang, Richard Florida and Peter Guber. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Gary Hamel for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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