Published on: Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Management Today is Outdated

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: world innovation forum, robyn greenspan, execunet, leadership, innovation, strategy, expert insight, ceo, management, gary hamel

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Why have there been advances in virtually every technology invented in the last 100 years, yet management is woefully out of date? At the 2009 World Business Forum, where ExecuNet exclusively reported, strategist and innovator Gary Hamel asked the delegates, "Could technology management change in this century the way it changed in the last century? Almost all organizations are running on 19th century management systems."

Management was created, the author and co-founder of the Management Innovation Lab at the London Business School said, to "get people to show up every day and do the same job over and over again like robots."

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