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"This isn't a book about one thing. It's not a 300-webpage dissertation on leadership, teams, or determination. Instead, it's a multi-faceted agendafor building organizations that can gain in world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable creativity." (From Preface) What Issues Now is Gary Hamel's impassioned plea to rethink the essential assumptions we have about management, this is of work, and organizational life. He asks, "What are the essential, make-or-break conditions that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years in advance?" The answer is found in five paramount issues: worth, innovation, adaptability, interest, and ideology. Principles: With rely upon large organizations at an all time low, there is an urgent need to restore the ethical foundations of capitalism. What's required is nothing significantly less than a moral renaissance in business. Invention: Invention is the sole security against margin-crushing competition, and the only way to outgrow a dismal current economic climate. In too many companies, innovation is still a buzzword, as opposed to the responsibility of each single specific. This must change. Adaptability: In a world of accelerating change, every company must build an evolutionary gain. The causes of inertia must be vanquished. The ultimate prize: an organization that is really as nimble as change itself. Enthusiasm: Running a business such as life, the difference between "insipid" and "influenced" is interest. With mediocrity fast learning to be a competitive responsibility, success is determined by finding new ways to rouse the human being spirit at the job. Ideology: Today, businesses need more than better practices; they need better concepts. Bureaucracy and control experienced their day. It's time for a new ideology based on flexibility and self-determination.
