I was invited to join the MLab / McKinsey Tech Roundtable on the 7th of March in San Francisco. It’s an event organized by Management Innovation Lab, a non-profit research organization based in Palo Alto and London, focused on corporate experimentation of management innovations. I’m really looking forward to meeting the other participants of the roundtable and discussing questions about accelerating the evolution of management practices with them. I’m especially excited to participate in a discussion with recognized innovation thought leaders, Andrew McAfee, Gary Hamel and Lenny Mendonca. Today the discipline of management is pressed by numerous factors, like globalization and shortening strategic lifecycles. Management is developing and embracing the benefits of openness, emergence, adaptability, and many other principles countering those of the management status quo (e.g., hierarchies, command control, bureaucracy) that companies have institutionalized over the past century. Organizations like Management Innovation Lab help to create “tomorrow’s best practices” today. I’ll be happy to add my 2 cents.
