Michele Zanini's Linkedin Analytics

I'm the co-author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Humanocracy (August 2020). The book's premise: top-down power structures and rule-chocked management systems--the defining features of virtually every large-scale organization on the planet--have fast become a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Humanocracy is the fruit of a decade's worth of research and practical experience at the Management Lab (MLab), a research and consulting collaborative Prof. Gary Hamel and I founded in 2010. We built the MLab to pursue our dream of organizations that: -Consistently amaze their customers; -Unleash the genius of every employee; -Change as fast as the world around them; -Are alive with the spirit of entrepreneurship; -Transcend seemingly intractable tradeoffs, such as efficiency vs. innovation. I believe that the only way to develop these capabilities is by radically reinventing how companies are led, managed and organized. We must try imagine organizations that are as radically different from the bureaucratic template as FaceTime is from a landline phone call, or Alipay is from a wad of banknotes. My passion is to help progressive companies developing tomorrow's best practices, today. In 2022, Gary and I launched The New Human Movement, a video series in partnership with Fast Company which features over 50 of the world's boldest thinkers and radical doers who are reimagining work, management and capitalism for a new age. I have a deep interest in unearthing new insights on how we manage, lead, and organize, and distilling their practical implications. I often write about these on the pages of the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, the McKinsey Quarterly. Fast Company, and Fortune. I also speak at public conferences (such as the Global Peter Drucker Forum), executive meetings, and other events. I was previously a senior consultant at McKinsey & Company and a leader in the Firm’s organization, strategy and financial services practices. I began my career at the RAND Corporation, a public policy think tank. My focus was on international policy, including NATO strategy in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. My most memorable RAND project was the first, back in 1996, exploring how terrorist and other insurgent groups were harnessing information-age technologies to operate as nimble networks.