The Crisis of Management Isn’t Your Failure. It’s the Model That’s Broken.
MBA orthodoxy promised control, predictability, and stability. In a fast-moving economy, it delivered bureaucracy, inertia, and disengagement.
This free executive briefing introduces the post-managerial shift already reshaping the most adaptive firms in the world.
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You’ve done everything “right.”
- You hired top talent.
- You implemented best-practice processes.
- You optimized governance, planning, and reporting.
Yet:
- Innovative newcomers outpace established firms with fewer resources
- Decision-making slows as coordination layers multiply
- Bureaucracy resists every attempt to remove it
- Employee engagement quietly erodesÂ
This isn’t a leadership gap. It’s a systemic contradiction.
Management science was built for stability.
You’re operating in permanent change.
Traditional management assumes:
Predictable Environments
Linear Planning
Centralized Control
Compliance-driven Coordination
Those assumptions no longer hold.Â
The result is administrative mode:
 A system optimized for order, not adaptation.
 Efficiency, not entrepreneurship.
 Control, not flow.
The future isn’t better management. It’s post-management.
High-performing organizations are shifting from:
Administration → Venture
Hierarchy → Self-organization
Control → Enterprise flow
They don’t manage innovation. They enable it.
This free executive briefing introduces two connected breakthroughs:
Understanding the Failure - and The Emerging Alternative
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The Post-Managerial Era of Capitalism
(Cambridge University Press)
Author Hunter Hastings, guided by Reinventing Capitalism series editor Professor Arie Lewin (Duke Fuqua), delivers a clear-eyed analysis of why management science failed — and what’s replacing it.
You’ll explore:
- The historical and philosophical roots of administrative mode
- Why management models collapse under complexity
- Real-world edge cases breaking the paradigm today
Including organizations like:
Airbnb, Valve, Buurtzorg, Haier, and DeepSeek.
Hastings draws from his experience as:
VC fund partner, CEO, CMO, and startup founder — identifying pioneers such as Paul Graham, Brian Chesky, and Liang Wengfeng.
This is not theory. It’s a map of what’s already working.
Venture Mode: Escape the Administration Trap by Unleashing Entrepreneurial Leaders
Co-authored by Hunter Hastings and Professor Mark Packard, Research Director at The Madden Center for Value Creation (Florida Atlantic University).
This work translates post-managerial principles into practical executive action.
You’ll discover:
- Why administrative mode has cost firms up to half their potential productivity growth
- How venture mode restores speed, accountability, and entrepreneurial energy
- How every firm — not just startups — can adopt this model
- Why business education itself must evolve from MBA to Masters in Business Enterprise
This is a new operating system for leadership.
What you'll get in the Free Executive Briefing
- A clear diagnosis of the management crisis
- The administrative vs. venture mode framework
- Real-world examples of post-managerial success
- A preview of the ideas shaping the upcoming book launch
Designed for executives who sense the system is broken — and want the next model before it becomes mainstream.
- Published by Cambridge University Press
- Guided by leading scholars
- Grounded in economics, entrepreneurship, and real firms
- Written by practitioners, not consultants
This isn’t trend commentary.
It’s a paradigm shift.