Innovation coming soon to a manager near you

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2007 | by Bruce Rosenstein

The Future of Management

By Gary Hamel, with Bill Breen

Harvard Business School Press, 272 pages, $26.95

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We live in a world transformed by the Internet, so why would anyone wish to work for a company managed along industrial-age principles?

Think about it: Why -- how -- should we go from an environment of creativity, connectivity and diversity to one of secrecy, favoritism and bureaucracy?

Excellent questions -- and one of the major ideas in Gary Hamel's compelling new book, The Future of Management, written with Bill Breen of Fast Company magazine.

Hamel, management professor at London Business School, sketches out a scenario of management innovation in which ideas from all levels of an organization...