Date: Nov 6, 2020

Time to Get On: 11:50 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

Start Time: Noon

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Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of upheaval, top-down power structures and rule-choked management systems are a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors, and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Hence this book.

In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.

Critical building blocks include:

• Motivation: Rallying colleagues to the challenge of busting bureaucracy
• Models: Leveraging the experience of organizations that have profitably challenged the bureaucratic status quo
• Mindsets: Escaping the industrial age thinking that frustrates progress
• Mobilization: Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processes
• Migration: Embedding the principles of humanocracy—ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox—in your organization's DNA

Whatever your role or title, Humanocracy will show you how to launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in your organization to be their best and to do their best. The ultimate prize: an organization that's fit for the future and fit for human beings.

Author

Michele Zanini is the cofounder--together with Gary Hamel--of the Management Lab, an organization that builds technology and tools to support collaborative organizational change.

Prior to the Management Lab, Zanini was an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, advising clients on strategy and organizational transformation.

Zanini also spent five years as a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he conducted pioneering research on how terrorist groups and other nonstate agents were harnessing information age technologies to operate as decentralized and dynamic networks.

Zanini's work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal.

Zanini holds degrees from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.