Humanocracy: Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller. In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. 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, models, mindsets, mobilization, and migration—embodying ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox. If you're tired of bureaucratic hurdles and want to build adaptable, empowering organizations, this book will guide you to challenge the status quo and create a future-ready organization.