Gary Hamel

Bureaucracy buster, champion of management revolution, and advocate for innovation as the driver of wealth creation.

HALL OF FAME

Inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2022. 

RANKED THINKER​

Ranked #31 in 2019. 

Previous positions:

#31 (2017), #30 (2015), #19 (2013), and #15 (2011).

THINKERS50 BOOKLIST

Competing for the Future (co-written with C.K. Prahalad) was featured on the Thinkers50 Management Classics Booklist in 2023.

 
 

Ideas

Hamel champions the need for a revolution in management and calls for radical innovation in business. He asserts that organizations must continually reinvent themselves, and not just at times of crisis. His groundbreaking concepts such as “strategic intent”, “core competence”, “industry revolution”, and “management innovation” have changed the language and practice of management in organizations around the globe.

 

Bio

Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Innovation eXchange. He is a founder of Strategos, an international consulting firm, and director of the Woodside Institute, a non-profit research organization. He has helped numerous companies design and build innovation-friendly management practices, and develop innovation tools and platforms.

 

Content

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2012); Strategic Intent (with CK Prahalad, HBR Press, 2010); The Future of Management (with Bill Breen, HBR Press, 2007); Leading the Revolution (HBR Press, 2000); Competing for the Future (with CK Prahalad, HBR Press, 1994).

 
NATIONALITY: American

Media picks

Verdict

“Gary Hamel is a legend in the world of management thinking.” 

Daniel Pink, author of When and Drive

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