![]() This ambivalence points to an underlying paradox of contemporary post-managerial thinking that is characterized by incorporating transgression into its productive logic. Although Hamel attempts to establish a clear-cut distinction between those principles of management that obstruct and those that facilitate innovation, one is ultimately left uncertain whether management is a cure or a poison for innovation. ![]() Informed by Derrida's reflection upon the dual meaning of pharmakon, a word that means both ‘remedy’ and ‘poison’, the paper engages with Hamel's popular management handbook The Future of Management. Hamel says it’s time to start managing according to the times rather than to old edicts. But on the other hand, management is portrayed the ‘cure’ that will heal the defects that prevents innovation. London Business School management professor and consultant Gary Hamel has realized that though technology has forever changed how companies operate, they still run according to outdated management rules and conventions created by long-dead management sages. On the one hand, management is portrayed as the ‘toxin’ that can impede innovation. However, the discourse on ‘management innovation’ attributes a curious dual function to the concept of management. ![]() There has been a growing tendency to argue that the practice of management must be reinvented in the future in order to energize the creative potential of employees.
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