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.
