L'art de (se) diriger ( le blog de Laurent Pellegrin)

For Gary Hamel, "we must reinvent management in ways that will make make large organizations fundamentally more adaptable, more innovative, and more inspiring places to work". In the February 2009 HBR issue he summarized a set of "moonshots for management" in 25 goals :

1. Ensure that management's work serves a higher purpose.
2. Fully embed the ideas of community and citizenship in management systems.
3. Reconstruct management's philosophical foundations.
4. Eliminate the pathologies of formal hierarchies.
5. Reduce fear and increase trust.
6. Reinvent the means of control.
7. Redefine the work of leadership (as social-system architects not heroic decision makers).
8. Expand and exploit diversity.
9. Reinvent strategy making as an emergent process.
10. Destructure and disaggregate the organization.
11. Dramatically reduce the pull of the past.
12. Share the work of setting direction.
13. Develop holistic performance measures.
14. Stretch executive time frames and perspectives.
15. Create a democracy of information.
16. Empower the renegades and disarm the reactionaries.
17. Expand the scope of employee autonomy.
18. Create internal markets for ideas, talent and resources.
19. Depoliticize decision making.
20. Better optimize trade-offs.
21. Further unleash human imagination.
22. Enable communities of passion.
23. Retool management for an open world.
24. Humanize the language and practice of business.
25. Retrain managerial minds.