Breaking Down Bureaucracy and Building Up Workers
Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini, cofounders of the consultancy Management Lab, say that even though we all lament how rigid, parochial, and time sucking bureaucracies can be, they still seem inescapable. The managers who\u2019ve excelled in them often don\u2019t know how to dismantle them \u2014 or else they don\u2019t want to. But Zanini and Hamel have studied and collaborated with innovative organizations, and they outline bottom-up ways to empower workers and hack management. Hamel and Zanini wrote the new book \u201cHumanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside them.\u201d