Gary Hamel
The World’s Reigning Strategy Guru

 Reinventing the DNA of Leadership and the End of Management

In the “creative economy” of the 21st century, initiative, imagination and passion are the keys to competitive success. The goal: to create organisations that inspire employees to bring these critical capabilities to work each day. The problem: old management practices that value obedience, diligence and conformance more highly than enthusiasm, ingenuity, and resourcefulness. While the pace of technology has raced forward in recent decades, the evolution of management has slowed to a crawl.  Yet the challenges that face organisations today can’t be surmounted with tradition-bound management practices that have their roots in the 19th century. What’s needed is a management revolution—a radical rethink about how we lead, structure, and manage our institutions, both public and private.

Changing the fundamentals of management won’t be easy, but the organisations that win in this new century will be the ones that succeed at this challenge—that create tomorrow’s best management practices today.

In his provocative and practical session at Leaders in Dubai Business Forum, Professor Hamel will outline . . .

	The case for management innovation - why it is needed now more than ever
	The process of management innovation - the four essential steps that can help your organisation build a decisive “management advantage”
	The steps that you can take to get this management revolution started in your own organisation

Gary Hamel is the ‘World’s Most Influential Business Thinker’' according to a recent ranking by the Wall Street Journal and named as ‘the world’s leading expert on business strategy’ by Fortune Magazine. For the last three years, he has also led the annual ranking in Executive Excellence Magazine’s most sought after speaker.

Gary has authored numerous best selling books, most recently the Amazon.com best business book of the year The Future of Management. Gary is the most reprinted author in the history of Harvard Business Review and in addition to his educational speaking, is a frequent consultant for some of the world’s largest organisations including P&G, Nokia, GE, Microsoft and Shell.

In his most recent venture, Gary is leading an effort to build the first “Management Lab” in the world which will bring together scholars and progressive businesses on a pioneering platform to co-create ‘tomorrow’s best practices’ today. The aim of the project is to radically accelerate the evolution of management, knowledge and practices.