whether Gary Hamel is right: Is the future of management another than we have know for the past century?

I think yes. To my opinion Gary Hamel offers some very interesting examples of metaphors that we should learn from

- life (has reinveted it selfe and survived several catastrophes - by crearing variation in the species this way always being prepared for the future. That is somehow in direct opposition to the prevaling management paradigm of process and quality management that in its very nature in variance decreasing)

- democratic nations (learders selected by employees. Democratic nations seems to have outmanuevered all the topmanaged nations of the world but regardless of this topmanaged companies are still more common than democratic companies. Odd or?)

- religions (meaning matter more than fact. But regardless of this most of the strategy papers I have read talks more to the brain than to the heart. Look on Novo Nordisk - they have managed to talk to the heart this way becoming one of the top insulin providers in the world),

- big cities (diversification among employees creates dynamic but who does not know a manager who prefers to employ somebody which is similar or controllable?)

In a world where product life cycles are shrinking, innovation is
the only way we can renew our success. It’s also the
only way we can survive in a world of competition. What if the innovation is really Schumpeterian. What if we have to break down the present regime of management to reinvent management?

That would mean that all the managers of the world who have earned the succeses inside the traditional management regime would have to reinvent themselves.

Is that likely?