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Gary Hamel's Insights on Building Purposeful Work Communities
1. Gary Hamel’s Thinking on Management:
Implications for Building Lasallian Work Community
Ben Teehankee
2. Gary Hamel
in The Future of Management (2007)
• “the machinery of modern management gets
fractious, opinionated, and free-spirited human
beings to conform to standards and rules, but in so
doing it squanders prodigious quantities of human
imagination and initiative.
• “It brings discipline to operations, but
imperils organizational adaptability. It
multiplies the purchasing power of
consumers the world over, but also enslaves
millions in quasi-feudal, top-down
organizations.” (p. 8-9)
3. Gary Hamel
in The Future of Management (2007)
Bureaucracy
• “the machinery of modern management gets
fractious, opinionated, and free-spirited human
beings to conform to standards and rules, but in so
doing it squanders prodigious quantities of human
imagination and initiative.
• “It brings discipline to operations, but
imperils organizational adaptability. It
multiplies the purchasing power of
consumers the world over, but also enslaves
millions in quasi-feudal, top-down
organizations.” (p. 8-9)
4. A Hierarchy of Human Capabilities at Work
PURPOSEFUL WORK COMMUNITY
A Spiritual Organization
Level 6: Passion and Zeal GIFTS
Level 5: Creativity Freely given
by members
Level 4: Initiative
BUREAUCRACY
A Machine Organization
Level 3: Expertise COMMODITIES
Level 2: Diligence Can be bought by
Level 1: Obedience the organization
Adapted from Hamel’s What Matters Now (2012), p. 141.
5. Building the Lasallian University Community
Dedicated to Authentic Human Development
PURPOSEFUL WORK COMMUNITY
A Spiritual Organization
Level 6: Passion and Zeal GIFTS
Level 5: Creativity Freely given
by members
Level 4: Initiative
“the entire school is viewed as a
fraternal community organized
around Gospel values that by its
very way of life serves as the agent
for human and Christian formation
and transformation”
Guiding Principles of the Philippine
Lasallian Family, p.18
6. What should we do to avoid
the perils of bureaucracy
and become the spiritual
organization we are meant
to be?
Editor's Notes
Obedience : show up, do the jobDiligence : work hard, stay focus, long hours etc …Intellect : taking responsibility for their own skills, bring best practices to the work placeInitiative : taking ownership for a problem, an opportunity before you ask them, not bound by a definition of their jobHuman creativity : brought by people who would ask how to do this in a fundamental different way ? What is there to learn from other industries ? Where are the chances for radical innovation in this product/service ?Passion and zeal : for whom their job is not only intellectually meaningful it is indeed spiritually meaningful to them. Enormous meaning comes out of their work.
Obedience : show up, do the jobDiligence : work hard, stay focus, long hours etc …Intellect : taking responsibility for their own skills, bring best practices to the work placeInitiative : taking ownership for a problem, an opportunity before you ask them, not bound by a definition of their jobHuman creativity : brought by people who would ask how to do this in a fundamental different way ? What is there to learn from other industries ? Where are the chances for radical innovation in this product/service ?Passion and zeal : for whom their job is not only intellectually meaningful it is indeed spiritually meaningful to them. Enormous meaning comes out of their work.