Gary Hamel Speaks at HCL 2010 Conference

Idea – score the quality of emails
Who are the natural leaders?
Every employee will have a “leadership score”
Management 2.0
  • -          Cellular structures
  • -          Radical decentralization
  • -          Natural hierarchies
  • -          Internal markets
  • -          Communities of passion
  • -          Self-determination- expand scope of choice; Google’s 20%
  • -          Permeable boundaries
  • -          Transparency to build Trust
  • -          Peer Review – used in academia

Individuals join Communities to make an impact
High Performing Organization
Eg – TopCoder – run competitions; best code wins; 11k coders; 220k members; 30 contests/week
Eg – Cisco’s i-Zone – thousands of ideas

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