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John Hagel (or John Hagel III) is a management consultant and author.
Hagel has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of two technology startups and served as the Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at Atari, Inc. He spent 16 years at McKinsey & Company, where he helped open their Silicon Valley office. Served as a leader of their strategy practice also he founded their e-commerce practice in 1993. Hagel has also been a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
In 2007, Hagel founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley-based research center. The Center for the Edge now has offices in Amsterdam and Melbourne.
Hagel is also involved with several other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he currently serves as co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts research on complex adaptive systems, and Independent Institute. Additionally, he hosts executive roundtables at the Aspen Institute.
He is credited with inventing the term "infomediary" in his book, NetWorth, co-authored with Marc Singer, and published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1999.
Hagel has been published in business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC and BBC.He has also been awarded two prizes by the Harvard Business Review for Best Article and has been called an industry thought leader by the World Economic Forum and Business Week. 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 … 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. Credit: John Hagel Posts where this quotation is embedded Connect More Connect more broadly, more deeplyPeople: … 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)
Gurteen Knowledge Blog November 15, 2023, 11:24I recently read an insightful article by John Hagel about shifting leadership models from credentialed experts to passionate explorers. As traditional institutions struggle to adapt, we need leaders who can guide us into the unknown with a spirit of collaboration, trust, and discovery. Rather than top-down control, explorers empower teams … Continue reading The Age of the Explorer Why curiosity and collaboration are the new leadership competencies
