New Book Review: "The Future of Management"

New book review for The Future of Management, by Gary Hamel and Bill Breen, Harvard Business School Press, 2007:

In the preface to this text, the authors indicate that their goal is "to help [the reader] become a 21st-century management pioneer; to equip [the reader] to reinvent the principles, processes, and practices of management for our postmodern age", but that "this is not a compendium of best practices. It's not filled with exhortations to 'go thou and do likewise'". In addition, Hamel and Breen go on to write that "this is a book for dreamers and doers. It's for everyone who feels hog-tied by bureaucracy, who worries that the 'system' is stifling innovation, who secretly believes that the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle, who wonders why corporate life has to be so dispiriting, who thinks that employees really are smart enough to manage themselves, who knows that 'management', as currently practiced, is a drag on success – and wants to do something about it."