Purpose – The paper was written with the intention of drawing attention to a fundamental dysfunction that is widespread in large organizations today – a myopic focus on maximizing shareholder value. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies the source of the dysfunction, the...

Purpose – Believing that the goal of maximizing shareholder value as reflected in the stock price and the management methods of hierarchical bureaucracy combine to cripple the capacity of the firm to innovate, the author offers a new management model. Design/methodology/approach – Assuming...

Purpose – The author adds six books to a cannon of books that together delineate the emerging practice and theory of radical management. Design/methodology/approach – The author identifies the mismatch between modern business' need to achieve continuous innovation in product development and...

Purpose Agile is the umbrella term for a family of management practices, which include Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. To investigate Agile management as it was being practiced in large firms, in 2015 Scrum Alliance, whose mission is “to transform the world of work,” launched a Learning Consortium...

Purpose – The author has found that some companies are learning to thrive by adopting a customer-centric model of continuous innovation. He describes their practices. Design/methodology/approach – These masters of the new creative economy have abandoned many of the major pillars of twentieth...