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John Hagel III is an American management consultant and author.
In 2007, Hagel founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley–based research center. He served as the Center's co-chairman and retired in 2020. He is founder of the consultancy company, Beyond Our Edge LLC.
Hagel is involved with several organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he serves as the co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems. He is also a Board of Trustees member for the Santa Fe Institute, which conducts research on complex adaptive systems, and for the Independent Institute. Additionally, he hosts executive roundtables at the Aspen Institute.
Hagel is credited with coining the term "infomediary" in his 1999 book, NetWorth, co-authored with Marc Singer.
Hagel's work has appeared in business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NBC, and BBC. The Harvard Business Review has twice awarded Hagel prizes for Best Article. Hagel also blogs at Edge Perspectives, the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and Techonomy.
Credit: Wikipedia - John_HagelJohn Hagel is a management consultant and author who specializes in helping executives to anticipate and address emerging business opportunities and challenges. He is the founder and co-chairman of Deloitte‘s Center for the Edge. I don’t know John but I love his work, especially his blog posts (see this post on spirit set), not only … Continue reading John Hagel Management Consultant & Author
Over time I have come to realize that actually it’s much less about strategy or technology and it’s much more about psychology. That if we don’t understand what motivates people, if we don’t understand their emotions, their fears, their hopes, their aspirations, the best strategy is just going to sit on the shelf and the best technology will … | John Hagel Continue reading It’s Less About Strategy or Technology and It’s More About Psychology John Hagel
Rather than constantly questioning and challenging our beliefs and being willing to think differently about the opportunities that are out there, we withdraw into what we’ve done before. And in a world that’s rapidly changing, that’s a formula for vulnerability. | John Hagel Continue reading Not Questioning and Challenging Our Beliefs Is a Formula for Vulnerability John Hagel
We live in a world dominated by push. We learn in an educational system that dictates what we need to know and pushes this knowledge to us for twelve or more years. We work in companies that forecast demand and then push products to the people and places where demand is expected to materialize. We … Continue reading The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison (2010)
Whether you’re running a business, building a career, raising a family, or attending school, uncertainty has been the name of the game for years―and the feeling reached an all-time high when COVID-19 hit. Even the savviest, smartest, toughest people are understandably feeling enormous pressure and often feeling paralyzed by fear. The Journey Beyond Fear by … Continue reading The Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success John Hagel (2021)
