In The Future of Management, best-selling author Gary Hamel tells us that organizations need management innovation now. Why? Because the management lessons of yesterday no longer hold true. To secure a lasting competitive edge, today's companies must reinvent management.

The Future Management shows how. It is both practical and profound - and will help you envision the management practices you need to be ready for tomorrow.

This is a book for dreamers and doers. It's for everyone who feels hog-tied by bureaucracy, who worries that the system is stifling innovation, who secretly believes that the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle, who wonders why corporate life has to be so dispiriting, who thinks that employees really are smart enough to manage themselves, who knows that management as currently practiced, is a drag on success - and ants to do something about it. If that's you, then welcome.

In The Future of Management, world renowned business sage Gary Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model - no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success.

In his most provocative book to date, Hamel takes aim at the legacy beliefs preventing twenty-first-century companies from surmounting new challenges. With incisive analysis and vivid illustrations, he explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator. Along the way, hamel reveals :

* The make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in age of head-snapping change

* The toxic effects of our legacy management beliefs

* The unconventional management practices generating breakthorugh results in a handful of pioneering organizations

* The new principles every company must weave into its management DNA

* The web's potential to obliterate smokestack management practices

* The actions your company can take now to build its own management advantage.

Practical and profpund, The Future of management features examples from an elite group of modern management pioneers - companies that have challenged management dogma and are reaping the rewards.

Get ready to throw off the shackles of yesterday's management dogma. Tomorrow's winners will be those companies that start inventing the future of management today.