Forgive the cliche, but I just got through reading Gary Hamel's newest book - The Future of Management, a Harvard Business Press publication (2007).
The "old wine" is what he calls conventional management theory. Principles, mind sets, mental models, it all clusters around us teaching hierarchy as an uncontested given.
"New bottles" would be entreprenuerial teaching, learning, and practice. To be different in each venture - teaching, learning, doing - would it not require management to be conceptualized to guide and energize being different?
I loaned Hamel's book to a colleague today, so I cannot do justice to the innovations of management (theory) itself that he helps the reader envision. His awowed purpose was to ignite our thinking about our most deeply held assumption, even convictions, about how to best organize human endeavor to bring out the best in all concerned.
My point in posting this tonight is to place a bookmark where "new and better management theory" ought to be factored in to our conversation on line and at OBTC 2008.
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