Management guru Gary Hamel and coauthor Michele Zanini paint a stark picture of how bureaucracy is worse and more costly than ever, and provide a manual for dismantling it and building an entrepreneurial organization that is truly fit for the future.

• Big idea book from leading business/management thinker
• Counterintuitive argument, that bureaucracy is still the biggest obstacle to innovation and success
• Substantial research base
• Lots of fresh stories and case studies in support of the argument
• Lots of frameworks and advice for our smart management audience

Audience: Broad general management audience interested in innovation, management innovation, organizational change, organizational culture, transformation, operations.

Announced first printing: 50,000
Laydown goal: 7,500

Gary Hamel is on the faculty of the London Business School and is a cofounder of the Management Lab, an organization that builds technology and tools to support breakthrough management innovation. Professor Hamel has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the world's most influential business thinker, and his landmark books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. They include The Future of Management and What Matters Now.

Michele Zanini is a cofounder of the Management Lab, where he helps large organizations become more adaptable, innovative, and engaging places to work. Zanini is an alumnus of McKinsey & Company and the RAND Corporation and holds degrees from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

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