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Book Description

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: Rallying colleagues to the challenge of busting bureaucracy
Models: Leveraging the experience of organizations that have profitably challenged the bureaucratic status quo
Mindsets: Escaping the industrial age thinking that frustrates progress
Mobilization: Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processes
Migration: Embedding the principles of humanocracy—ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox—in your organization's DNA

If you've finally run out of patience with bureaucratic bullshit . . .
If you want to build an organization that can outrun change . . .
If you're committed to giving every team member the chance to learn, grow, and contribute . . .
. . . then this book's for you.

Whatever your role or title, Humanocracy will show you how to launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in your organization to be their best and to do their best. The ultimate prize: an organization that's fit for the future and fit for human beings.

Table of Contents

  1. Praise Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Part One: The Case for Humanocracy: Why Poke the Bureaucratic Beehive?
    1. 1. Fully Human
    2. 2. Bureaucracy in the Dock
    3. 3. Counting the Cost
  8. Part Two: Humanocracy in Action: Can We Really Go Bureaucracy-Free?
    1. 4. Nucor: Building People Not Products
    2. 5. Haier: Everyone an Entrepreneur
  9. Part Three: The Principles of Humanocracy: What’s the DNA of a Human-Centric Organization?: What’s the DNA of a Human-Centric Organization?
    1. 6. Principles over Practices
    2. 7. The Power of Ownership
    3. 8. The Power of Markets
    4. 9. The Power of Meritocracy
    5. 10. The Power of Community
    6. 11. The Power of Openness
    7. 12. The Power of Experimentation
    8. 13. The Power of Paradox
  10. Part Four: The Path to Humanocracy: How Do We Get There?
    1. 14. Michelin: First Steps
    2. 15. Start Here
    3. 16. Scale It Up
  11. Appendix A: The Bureaucratic Mass Index Survey
  12. Appendix B: Sizing Up the Bureaucratic Class
  13. Notes
  14. Index
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. About the Authors
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