Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them, reviewed

By Simon Cocking, review of Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them. Available from their website here.

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.

Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them, reviewed

This book identifies some real and relevant issues. Reading the initial premise I found myself thinking, yes please, I want companies to be less like they are, and more how the authors outline it could be. They also hit the nail on the head with their observation that why oh why, time and time again, have large, globally successful companies such as Microsoft, Google, IBN failed to engage with the latest new business opportunities. Anyone remember Google+, their failed attempt to respond to social media activity. Microsoft massively failed to achieve a stake in the search engine business, and IBM got overtaken by so many new up and coming rivals.

Hamel and Zanini write well and convincingly, capturing well the challenge that time and time again dynamic and smart 20 somethings are ignored in the large companies, and are instead passed out by those that leave to develop their ideas in their own companies. Can it be any other way? Humanocracy wrestles with this concept, and gamely makes an attempt to suggest ways in which it might be possible to ‘create organisations as amazing as the people inside them’. Can it be done is an open question, but it is something that must at least be tried.

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