The Economist calls Professor Hamel "the world's reigning strategy guru," and Professor Peter Senge of MIT describes him as "the most influential thinker on strategy in the Western world." As the author of concepts such as "core competence," "strategic intent," "industry foresight," and "industry revolution," Professor Hamel has changed the focus and language of strategy in many of the world's most successful companies.

In his work with world leading companies such as Shell, Nokia, CGU and others, Professor Hamel and his colleagues at Strategos have helped management teams create rule-breaking strategies that have generated billions of dollars in new wealth.

Hamel has published 10 articles in the Harvard Business Review in 14 years. Four of his articles have received the prestigious McKinsey Prize for excellence, a feat unmatched by any other management author. He is also the most reprinted author in the history of the Harvard Business Review. "Waking up IBM" is Hamel's latest article in the Harvard Business Review. In the last three years he has also authored three cover stories for FORTUNE, the world's most prestigious business magazine.

Professor Hamel's landmark book, Competing for the Future, was Business Week's management book of the year, and has appeared on every management best-seller list. Having been translated into more than 20 languages, it is the best-selling book ever on business strategy. Hamel's latest book, Leading the Revolution, was published in August 2000 (Harvard Business School Press).

Professor Hamel is the world's most sought-after speaker on strategy and innovation. He is a frequent speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at the Fortune 500 CEO Roundtable and Bill Gates' CEO Summit. In addition, he has spoken to hundreds of boards and senior management groups. He is on the board of the Strategic Management Society and a fellow of the World Economic Forum.

From Leading the Revolution:

We stand on the threshold of a new age-the age of revolution. In our minds, we know this new age has already arrived; in our bellies, we're not sure we're going to like it. For we know it is an age of upheaval, of tumult, of fortunes made and unmade at head-snapping speed. For change has changed. No longer is it additive. No longer does it move in a straight line. In the twenty-first century, change is discontinuous, abrupt, seditious.

Every age brings its own blend of promise and peril, and the age of revolution has plenty of both. But there is reason to be more hopeful than fearful, for the age of revolution is presenting us with an opportunity never before available to humankind. For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.