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This is a Robot Wars / Battlebots inspired collection of information from around the web... an aid to understanding the use of CO2
in powering pneumatics...but the info contained here is also of help in unrelated areas LOOK around ( it's a bit of a mish mash ).
There's info on CO2 ...Filling bottles... Bottle Pressure...Cylinder valve threads ... Flow coefficients ... Valve flow... Valves... BSP Threads etc.
New in pneumatics section ...HERE A very handy conversion utility... Download it ..... you will not be disappointed!
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LUXFER Bottle / Cylinder
Manufacturer --HERE
Extinguishers ,Paintball, etc ....
Sizes C thru to J
CATALINA Cylinders U.S of A HERE
Sizes C thru to J
You'll find the bottle neck thread size by following the Luxfer and Catalina
links above ...
But normally they're M25 X 2mm ...Older
You can purchase a hand wheel valve to replace the std fire extinguisher squeeze valve from :-
European M25 X 2mm pitch only.
Co2 Screw Down Valve (Tapered thread 3/4" BSP )
Throughout the world, carbon dioxide cylinder valves have a special
thread. In
British BS341 No. 8 European DIN 477 No. 6 and SN 219505 Type 7
French NF E 29-650 Type C Australian AS2473 Type 30
America CGA 320 and Japanese JIS B 8246 CO2 threads are different and are not compatible with each other nor with British/European CO2 threads).
American CO2 Valve Thread Size
Standard cylinder valve outlet connection for pressures up to 3,000 psig for compressed co2.
Cylinder valve outlet thread: .825-14NGO-RH-EXT
Note:- Want to use your U.S.
Regulator on a European bottle?...Simply unscrew the stem and replace the nut.
A regulator nut to fit the European thread can be obtained from www.weldability.com part no:- DACO2NUT
1/2" BSP = CGA 320 .... Well it is the same apart from the thread angle. ☺
A female 1/2" BSP .... British Standard Pipe..... fitting will screw nicely onto the male CGA 320 thread.
Paintball Valve
Inlet Thread : 5/8-18UNF
Outlet Thread : CGA 320
CGA 320 Thread
Both Paintball and Soda Stream valves have this special
thread specifically for CO2 called a CGA320 thread.
CGA stands for Compressed Gas Association...... and is often called an ASA thread or Air Source Adaptor.
SodaStream adaptors @ craftbrew.com Australia ...type "sodastream" in search for other options
Sodastream to Paintball adaptor from Palmer Pursuit.
CLUB website
The NEW Soda Stream ........or Soda Club cylinder has a strange thread ..... 4.4 mm pitch trapezoidal!
It's possible to buy this adapter / adaptor in the USA HERE and HERE
and Europe HERE
Problems re-filling your Soda Club bottle? .....This may well be the result of Soda Clubs special valve.
More info at this blog soadahclub.vox.com
Australia seems to have retained the original SodaStream thread on their new Alco jet bottles
see pic below ......perhaps other countries have as well.
http://www.firekwencher.com 1kg and 2kg Fire Extinguishers also by Soda Club
Gas Outlet Valve
Threads.... designations and dimension
BSP NPT & Others Screw Threads.
How to fill
an empty bottle
This is the process used to refill empty or partially full tanks. Using what is normally called a Fill Station, the tank to be filled is connected
to the larger storage tank. Air or C02 is then transferred from the storage tank into your bottle.
For the transfer of air or C02 to take place, the tank you are filling from must be at a higher pressure than the one you are trying to fill.
Standard CO2 cylinders all have liquid in them as long as they are filled but come in two types. Gas and Siphon.
Gas cylinders stand upright and releases gas from the evaporation liquid when the valve is opened - this type of cylinder must be turned
upside down in order to obtain liquid CO2 to refill any cylinder.
Siphon cylinders have a tube from the valve to the bottom of the cylinder so that when the valve is opened liquid CO2 comes out without
having to invert the bottle.
Fire extinguishers are of the Siphon type and Pub Beer Gas Cylinders are of the Gas type.
The measurement of gas in a tank is dependent on the type of gas. C02 under high pressure is LIQUID ...so the
fill is always calculated by weight, never by pressure.
The weight of gas/liquid that the bottle should hold will be stamped on the bottle....NEVER exceed it.
A 2 kg tank is designed to carry safely a maximum of 2 kg of liquid C02.
More HERE
A pressure gauge on a C02 bottle can never tell you how full it is.
The pressure in the tank is connected to the temperature of the C02....Find out by how much...click here
Air, on the other hand, is measured as a pressure within a fixed volume, the volume of the tank is irrelevant to the pressure you
can fill it to and the maximum fill pressure is always its safe working pressure, printed on the bottle.
W.P. = working pressure (or fill pressure). This is the maximum any bottle should be filled to and should be printed on the bottle.
This will be around 750 p.s.i. as a norm for CO2..........but can rise considerably on a hot day.
T.P. = test pressure. The pressure the bottle is hydrostatically tested too.
You should never try to fill to this pressure. Any burst disks must fail before this pressure.
B.P. = burst pressure… Pressure at which the cylinder will rupture.
This is prevented from happening by a small thin copper disc retained under a plug in the valve called a rupture or burst disc,
this will blow @ around 2,200 psi venting the contents of the cylinder to atmosphere.
You can fill an
empty Fire Extinguisher Bottle in almost the same way. A slightly
different order of valves being turned on and
off is employed.
Connect pipe work - making sure dump tap is off - open valve on Fire
Extinguisher - open valve on donor bottle - wait while
the bottle fills , you should hear the gas going in and can guess-timate when the bottle stops filling - shut both - vent excess
in the pipe by opening dump valve - remove Fire Extinguisher and weigh it.
Filling kit and "How to" links on another site........
http://www.kegman.net/refilling.html and http://www.kegman.net/paintball/pbrefiller.html
Properties of Carbon Dioxide or CO2
Technical explanation of the volume of gas in 1kg of liquid CO2
Suppose you have a 1kg capacity fire extinguisher.
That is 1kg of liquid CO2
The weight of a mole of CO2 is 44g so you know that you have 22.7 moles of gas.
At 1.0 atm pressure and room temperature of 298 K, the concentration of an ideal gas is 0.041 mol/L.
So at room temp and pressure those 22.7 moles will occupy 22.7/0.041= 553 liters .
Therefore ....1 kg of liquid co2 will give you approximately :-
36 litre's of gas at 15 bar / 225 p.s.i , 55 litre's at 10 bar / 150 p.s.i. and 81 litre's at 100 p.s.i
Online calculator & info for everything CO2 HERE
A quick conversion for our American friends ....... 1lb of liquid CO2 contains 10.3 moles of gas .......1 mole of gas is 0.86 cubic feet .........So our 1lb of liquid will expand to a volume of around 8.8 cubic feet or 15,000 cubic inches @ room temp and pressure.
Temperature and percentage of fill greatly affects the pressure of co2 in
your bottle (around 750-850 p.s.i. is the norm). See the graph below.
@ 100 degrees F the pressure in full bottle will have risen to 1400 psi ... @ 120 degrees F it's approaching 2000 psi .
Bottle Freezing
If one simply tries to exploit the gaseous phase
existing in the vapor space of the tank for process purposes, what will happen
is that the gas phase inventory may be depleted faster than tank liquid can
vaporize and replace the gas removed. The amount of heat required to
continuously vaporize liquid CO2 is such that external, ambient heat cannot be
transmitted through the tank walls fast enough to makeup for the gas removed.
This results in a decrease of tank vapor space pressure – sometimes down to
very low pressures that approach 5 barg. At this very low pressure, the
corresponding saturated temperature of the tank's liquid would be approaching
-56.4oC and all the liquid will be solid
i.e. Dry Ice.
The way that the vapor pressure in the tank is kept constant while saturated vapor is withdrawn from the top of the tank is that a liquid vaporizer is employed to generate and replace the withdrawn vapors. The vaporization is usually effected by the use of an immersed electric heater that responds to the action of a simple pressure switch or transmitter that is mounted on the top of the tank. When the pressure decays, the electric heater is activated; when the design pressure is reached, the heater is shut off.
CO2 Phase Diagram.......... above.
The carbon dioxide phase diagram has 3 phases -- gaseous, liquid, and solid. The triple point (pressure 5.1 atm., temperature - 56.4C) is defined as the temperature and pressure where three phases (gas, liquid and solid) can exist simultaneously in thermodynamic equilibrium. Above the critical point (pressure 73 atm., temperature 31.1C ) the liquid and gas phase cannot exist as separate phases. This region, known as the superfluid or supercritical phase, has properties indistinguishable from the liquid and gas phases.
At temperatures below −78 °C, carbon dioxide condenses into a white solid called dry ice. Liquid carbon dioxide forms only at pressures above 5.1 atm; at atmospheric pressure, it passes directly between the gaseous and solid phases in a process called sublimation.
Enthalpy has a lot to answer for and is the cause of freezing.
With a gas fed source as the pressure drops in an orifice, liquid droplets nucleate and the percentage of liquid increases. At the interface between the liquid-gas and gas-solid regions (near 80 psi.), all the liquid converts to solid - yielding about 6 % dry ice. With a liquid fed source as the pressure drops in the orifice, gas bubbles form and the percentage of gas increases until the gas-solid boundary is met. Here, the remaining liquid is transformed into solid - yielding about 45% dry ice.
So.......If you use compressed co2 in liquid form and utilise the gas that boils off from it ...then your containing vessel , bottle or cylinder will get cold .....if you exceed the ability of the bottle or cylinder to warm back up by absorbing heat from it's surroundings then the pressure will drop and the contents may freeze.
A small amount of dry ice or snow can be formed by the gas as it exits the system to a lower pressure and a large amount of dry ice if its liquid exiting to a lower pressure.
The formation of large amounts of dry ice is to be avoided as this can cause a system blockage.
Fire extinguishers do not have this freezing problem .......liquid is ejected to atmosphere so most of the heat/cold transfer happens outside the bottle.
When it comes to using pneumatics the following
Flow = Speed
Pressure = Power
A combination of the 2 gives an effective flipper.
So.....MAXIMISE your possible flow ....
NO restrictions in your pipe work .....
and a decent size buffer tank of around twice your rams volume .
( The buffer tank contains a " head " of gas @ your required pressure.)
Several factors have an impact on the flow coefficient.
o Orifice size (diameter of the piping or opening through the valve)
o Length of piping or opening through the valve
o Turbulence caused by bends or turns in the piping
o Restrictions, or anything that reduces the orifice size or the flow path
o Shape of the orifice
Flow Coefficient Cv and Flow Factor Kv
The flow coefficient - C v - and the flow factor - Kv - are commonly used for specifying the capacities of control valves.
It is often convenient to express the capacities and flow characteristics of control valves in terms of the
Flow Coefficient - Cv
The flow coefficient - C v - is based on the imperial units system and is defined as:
The flow of water through a valve at 60 o F in
flow coefficient is commonly used in the
The metric equivalent of the flow coefficient - Cv - is based on the SI-system and is called the
Flow Factor - Kv
The flow factor is defined as
The flow of water through a valve at 20 o C in cubic meters per hour with a pressure drop of 1 kg/cm 2 (1 bar)
flow factor is commonly used outside
What is the Qn Value?
Qn value is used in pneumatics to define the flow of a valve. It is defined as:
The volume flow in litres per minute of air at a temperature of 20° celcius, with an input pressure of 6 bar and a pressure drop across the valve of 1 bar.
dimensions of Kv values can be transposed by means
of following factors:
Here's a list of definitions & Acronym's pertaining to valves....
"100% Area" (
"Standard Opening" - means that the area through the valve is less than the area of standard pipe, and therefore these valves should be used only where restriction of flow is unimportant.
"Round Port" - means that the valve has a full round opening through the plug and body, of the same size and area as standard pipe.
"WOG" - Water, oil, gas (Cold working pressure)
"SWP" - Steam Working Pressure
"ANSI" - American National Standards Institute
"CWP" - Cold Working Pressure
Note :- Kv quoted in litres/min
Cv Flow Through Orifices
flow rates for servo assisted 2/2 valves.
Info also applies to 5/2 and 3/2 spool valves.
Note that the flow for these is almost 1/3 that of the equivalent size
ball valve.
Or if you like your pipe or tube could flow nearly 3 times more.
PACulatorValve sizing and flow
The answer to your valve flow questions .... CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK ... remember that the density of CO2 is 1.52
There is a link to this at the top of the page....I really like it....So here it is again Convert.exe DOWNLOAD IT! if you haven't already.
High Pressure & Liquid CO2 Valves ...........HYCONTROL
High Pressure Burkert Solenoid valve
This is the valve used on MANY Full Pressure European Flippers.
This valve only has a pressure rating of 50 bar BUT it has been re-tested and approved for the higher 66 bar ( 1000 psi ) used in Fighting Robots.
Note that over-volting of the std 24v solenoid is necessary for a satisfactory activation at 66 bar OR use a 12v solenoid coil @ 24v.
|The Burkert 5404
|The above chart shows American specs for the same valve .... Note:- The Non- UL version has the 50 bar rating
QEV's Quick Exhaust Valves
These have good flow rates compared to a standard 2/2 or 5/2 spool valve ......perhaps 3 times better.
Consider it's use as an inlet valve instead of an exhaust ☺.
a regulator ..Get the Victor SR310
Take the link TWICE!
Victor® SR-311-320 Carbon Dioxide Regulator
Part No :-
PDF File for the Victor.... HERE


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An impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it. (innovationexcellence.com, March 2012) The book is bang up to date highlights recent crises and what we can learn from them (CPO Agenda, April 2012) A thought provoking and relevant book for our time that should inspire change, even if it doesn t prescribe it. (economia.com, April 2012) An interesting and thought provoking read for HR and finance directors. (HR Magazine, April 2012) Plenty to feed those with an appetite for change. (CA Magazine, April 2012) A rarity among business books, What Matters Now has an entertaining, anecdotal style that does nothing to diminish the visionary authority with which Hamel speaks . (I: Global Intelligence for the CIO, April 2012) The book is bang up to date highlights recent crises and what we can learn from them. (CPO Agenda, April 2012) 'Probably one of the most important books you could read this year an invitation to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism. (Leadership Now, May 2012)
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In the Preface, Hamel urges his reader to ask, "What are the fundamental, make-or-break challenges that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead?" For Hamel, five issues are paramount:
o Values: "Not surprisingly, large corporations are now among society's least trusted institutions...vales now matter more than ever."
o Innovation: "After a decade of [begin italics] talking [end italics] about innovation, it's time to close the gap between rhetoric and reality. To do so, we'll need to recalibrate priorities and retool mindsets."
o Adaptability: "In most organizations, there are too many things that perpetuate the past and too few that encourage proactive change. The `party of the past' is usually more powerful than the `party of the future.'"
o Passion: "The problem is not a lack of competence, but a lack of ardor. In business as in life, the difference between `insipid' and `inspired' is passion.Read more ›
Hamel's plea is to "reinvent" management by rethinking our societal assumptions---and therefore our resultant behaviours---about capitalism, organizations, management, and "life at work". Hamel vigourously argues that we live today in a world of "relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation".
Given the breakneck pace of change today, Hamel asserts that managers and organizations must dance faster to the tune of continuous change. Managers need to increasingly introduce and implement organizational change to keep up with the ever-changing world within which organizations operate. In this regard, Hamel echo's Sir Richard Branson in his insightful book SCREW BUSINESS AS USUAL where he advances that we need to change the way we do business; business as usual isn't working; things have to change; we need to make a difference; we need to do things differently.
Through a series of twenty-five tightly interconnected essays, or chapters, Hamel sees five themes or issues that require immediate attention. Hamel argues that managers need to emphasize values that focus on humanity, morality, creativity, innovation, passion, and a "kinder" form of capitalism.Read more ›
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Following on from the themes that he aired in The Future of Management, Hamel argues again that we are clinging too long to a model of management that was designed for the manufacturing revolution started by people like Henry Ford; a revolution that depended on standardisation, efficiency and control. The problem, argues Hamel, is that the efficiency that these great and hugely successful machines require rubs against the grain of what humans do best. Reminding us of the remarkable fact that in 1890 in America, nine out of ten white males worked for themselves, Hamel points out that the inevitable result of industrialisation was that `unruly and independent-minded farmers, artisans and day-labourers had to be transformed into rule-following, forelock-tugging employees.' And we are still at it today, `working hard to strap rancorous and free-thinking human beings into the straightjacket of corporate obedience, conformity and discipline.'
Hamel sells his point cleverly: it's not that corporations need to give employees a greater degree of freedom because that will be nicer for the employees, it's that rigid, command and control model bureaucracies will inevitably stagnate and die. What matters now, says Hamel, illustrating his point with the incontestable success story of Apple Inc, is innovation and adaptability. The cost of forcing people into the straightjacket of classic hierarchical management structures is the cost of lost ideas, commitment and passion - the very things that organisations most need in order to adapt and survive. Hamel quotes a sad fact revealed by a 2007-08 survey of 90,000 workers in 18 countries which demonstrated that only 21% of these workers were truly engaged with their work, while 38% were mostly or entirely disengaged and the remainder were sort of alright really. Hamel offers his own version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - a hierarchy of human capabilities at work. From the most important to the least important, Hamel lists Passion, Creativity, Initiative, Expertise, Diligence and, last of all, Obedience. If you work for a large organisation, you may agree with Hamel that the most important three capabilities in this list are the ones that are demanded of you least on the average working day.
The solution, Hamel argues, is to build organisations on entirely different lines, and to put individuals ahead of institutions. His recipe for this, at its most fundamental, is: decentralise; emphasize community not hierarchy; make decision-making transparent; make leaders accountable to the led; align rewards with contribution not position; carry out peer reviews not top-down reviews; encourage self-determination. In a clever and interesting analogy, Hamel urges corporations to embrace the values of the internet, where all ideas compete on an equal footing, resources are attracted not allocated, and tasks are chosen not assigned.
My minor quibble with the book is its determinedly chirpy tone, which runs the risk of trivialising the content. If we are serious students of management and of organisational behaviour then we don't need to be chivvied along with cheery chirpiness, like a bunch of students with low attention spans. My least favourite example of this writing style: `Here, in a pistachio-sized shell, is what we learned.' `Here is what we learned' is fine by me.
My major quibble with the book is that Hamel, as a heavyweight management consultant, should be uniquely well-placed to give us a long list of case studies about companies who are trying to put his principles into practice. We don't really get that. When Hamel talks about Apple, he admits that he has not done any consultancy work for them, so his conclusions as to what they might be doing right are only those of outside observer, albeit a very-well informed observer. Apple are `redefining the basis for competition', `locking up customers with velvet handcuffs' and `extending core competencies into new markets.' Well, yes they are, but Hamel is reduced to introducing this by saying, `Ask an industry analyst or MBA student to deconstruct the company's gravity-defying performance and they would probably point out . . . ` He's not wrong, but one would like some deeper insight based on Hamel's hands-on experience of working with remarkable companies.
My heart also sank when, in the middle of the book, just as the reader is becoming desperate for a real example of how (and if) these radical and exciting ideas really can work in practice, Hamel gives us the example of an Anglican vicar in North London who devolves his church's `management structure' into a number of Mission Shaped Communities, run by his parishioners. It may be my personal problem that I care neither whether nor how any church increases its flock, but my main concern is that most captains of existing industries who are wondering how on earth to begin to turn their own supertankers around would be even less interested or impressed.
Later, however, we get good accounts of both W.L. Gore and Associates, manufacturers of the polymer fabric Gore-Tex, and of the world's largest tomato processor, California's The Morning Star Company: successful organisations built on thoroughly democratic, bottom-up principles. At Gore, colleagues choose which projects they want to work on and make a commitment to what they will deliver. At Morning Star, everyone is self-managing, committing to a personal mission statement of what they will contribute, which is guided by the broad mission statement of the independent business unit in which they work. Business units negotiate with other associates and other business units for what they will deliver and for what they need delivered in their turn. Everyone has the power to spend money to buy what they need to get the job done - but first they have to sell the idea to their peers. There is no management hierarchy to climb as the only means of advancement; career progression and higher rewards come though contributing more: mastering new skills and finding new ways to serve colleagues. In both companies, rewards are determined mainly by peer-based assessments of contribution.
We've already seen the W. L. Gore business model in Hamel's The Future of Management, so Morning Star represents the most significant genuinely new model offered for our consideration. And both of these companies were set up from scratch with their new, revolutionary business models in place from day one which, while still impressive, still feels a lot easier than taking an existing hierarchical organisation and transforming it into a new, self-determining model. We are finally given some insights into such a process via the experiences of the Indian IT service company, HCL Technologies, who have set out to `invert the pyramid' of their management structure and to make management accountable to the people at the front line. It would have been good to see some more examples of such transformations, even if they are only `work in progress.'
Throughout the book, Hamel offers guidelines as to the ways in which the management of organisations run on traditional lines can begin to empower and impassion their workforce, but I do feel that the Chief Executive of a major organisation might feel that he or she has been given an inspirational glimpse of an exciting future, rather than the map that will guide them to the final destination. Hamel's almost final word is a rap on my knuckles for this unworthy thought: `You don't need a detailed change programme to get started. Bus drivers follow maps; pioneers follow polestars.' Ouch. So much for this particular bus driver. Over to you, pioneers - follow that polestar!
Hamel is not wrong in saying that our future depends on us getting this right. I have no doubt whatsoever that the corporate structures that served us well in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will not deliver prosperity for us in the twenty-first, and that if we do not develop nimble and adaptable organisations that allow individuals to flourish and contribute, then we will fall behind in the race. I also firmly believe that Hamel is right in saying that freedom and self-determination must be the guiding principles for this process. These are the guiding principles of our democracies; it's a bit disturbing that they are not the guiding principles of most of our organisations.
What Matters Now treats the reader as an intelligent, concerned and reflective professional rather than a mindless consumer of business advice. The result is a book that is as refreshing as it is provocative.
Highly recommended, not as a path to success, but as a guide for personal reflection on the state of business, leadership and what can be possible if only we decide to make it so.
Hamel covers a wide range of subjects in 25 tightly written chapters from morality of business leaders and their failure in the financial crisis to new views on innovation, management, participation and the impact of technology on the way we work. The book is divided into four sections:
Section 1: Values Matter Now addressing the failure of values and its consequences coming out of the global financial crisis.
Section 2: Innovation Matters Now covering the need for greater innovation, focus on design and recognizing the personal challenges and rewards for innovation. Chapter 2.4 on turning innovation duffers into pros offers the most realistic view on why innovation is hard that I have read in a long time.
Section 3: Adaptability Matters Now provides a view of the nature of change, the forces driving it and the rewards associated with creating more adaptable and engaging organizations.
Section 4: Passion Matters Now contains a sharp and well-constructed analysis of modern accepted forms of management and what is possible if we put a focus back on people and their passions. Chapter 4.3 building communities of passion, which describes how St. Andrew's church created mission-shaped-communities offers an example we can all see personally and think about how to apply professionally.
Section 5: Ideology Matters Now concentrates on the intellectual underpinnings and believes of modern management and challenges leaders to be different. Hamel provides examples of how to work without hierarchies, where employees are treated as adults and people make their own decisions. The result is creativity and success rather than the chaos others would predict.
Hamel illustrates his points with an energetic, engaging and surprisingly personal writing style that not only tells a story but also makes points that make you think. For example, I had no idea that Hamel was a latecomer to the game of golf or how the feeling of a well made shot is similar to the feeling associated with creating a innovation. Many of these stories have been featured on his Wall Street Journal Blog, but taken together each takes on new context and purpose. They constitute a way of thinking about the future that is best contemplated at book length.
It takes one kind of person to `tell' you what you should do in a business book. It takes another, one with deeper insight, concern and interest to tell the truth and trust that the reader can make their own decisions. Hamel writes for that reader, one who will think about what they have read and seek to apply the principles rather than blindly follow a process.
Hamel treats the reader as an adult. He writes to influence the way you think and in a way that is more lively, less academic and provocative than business books that are edited or reviewed by corporate committees. The book gives you a sense of spending the day with Hamel and having a deep and engaging conversation of what it will take to create the type of world we all would be proud to live in and pass onto our children.
The books chapters are clear, concise and focused around a single idea that is well supported by examples and advice provided in terms of things to think about rather than tasks to perform.
The book is filled with rules of thumb; lists and case examples that help the reader distill the message into ideas and actions that they can readily apply in their own situations. This keeps the book actionable and accessible and avoids being a theoretical manifesto.
The book covers topics that are not normally thought of in a business book like culture, ideology, and behavior and applies them to non-traditional situations. For example, Hamel's examination and discussion of the management ethos of modern religions was eye opening and illustrative.
Readers looking for a prescriptive polemic statement of success will find this book frustrating. There is no 12-step process, seven habits, or three things that you need to blindly follow. You need to be prepared to think about the points made in this book.
People entrenched in the power structure will find this book annoying in the sense that it constantly chips away at the notion that the top knows all, controls all and that hierarchy is the natural order of things. Hamel's chipping away at the fundamentals underneath current control obsessed management is significantly more revolutionary than it might appear.
Some may find Hamel's discussion of Values, Innovation, Adaptability, Passion and Ideology too high level, simplistic or cursory. After all, each of these topics is at least a book in its own right, so how could anyone say something important about them. Hamel resolves that dilemma by going to core and central issues in each of these areas and addressing them with pointed and powerful arguments and ideas that make you think.
Overall, highly recommended for people who are willing to consider different arguments, ideas and recommendations. Reading What Matters Now generates contemplation and thought rather than mindless consumption of the latest answer to all questions. The challenges we all face from the crisis of values to the creation of mechanistic organizations require deep thought to address successfully. That is what makes reading What Matters Now well worth your time, attention and passion.
To start, I want to note that Hamel is not just a crazy populist off the street – he was a visiting professor at HBS/London Business School, writes for the WSJ, started Strategios (a mediocre management consulting firm) and has been highly regarded by Forbes. I am, personally, a Theory-Y proponent (albeit not as radical as him). Between Hamel's background and the strong support for this book on Amazon, I was expecting a great book. I was very disappointed, and I am really shocked that this author was a professor at Harvard. Overall, Hamel does provide useful high-level advice and a decent framework, but his advice is clouded in dogmatic ideological opinions and not fleshed out well. He spends most of the book on his ideological high-horse chastising current management structures and very little time arguing with data/research or showing detailed implementations of his ideas. Many of his statements that were made to be factual could be challenged or were just wrong. (e.g., basically saying, "Anyone with a brain could see the financial meltdown was a sure-thing" – So then why weren't you shorting the housing market with as much money and as much leverage as possible? It was a highly complex system and certainly some people did really think there were issues, but the number of people was very small and the few who did notice issues saw it as "potentially risky" if they were able to understand the system. You may disagree with me, but you are wrong if you think there is only one side to the argument)
Examples where Hamel overreached: 1.Basically said that "cost cutters" don't enhance innovation at all. 2. Mentioned Huawei multiple times, but couldn't pronounce the name even close to correctly, and seems to know almost nothing about the company despite using them as a case in point on at least two occasions. There were a lot more. By the way, out of curiosity, I checked the Glassdoor employee reviews for the 2 revolutionary companies Hamel mentioned (W.L. Gore and Associates, and The Morning Star Company), and their average was ~3.5* rating out of 5, and they're not exactly enormously profitable companies.
A lot of good non-fiction books nowadays are massive group efforts that involve several man-years of research. This book, relatively, seemed like something that the author put together in his free time by dictating stream of consciousness. It was like a motivational speech with a few unsubstantiated "facts." I like academics and I think the management style should become much more Theory Y focused, so I don't want to accuse Hamel of being an ivory tower professor who would get lost in the trenches – but I'm shocked that this guy is able to get large businesses to pay him for consulting services. I just think he'd have trouble figuring out how to implement so many of his ideas (he's been writing about basically only this topic for decades and he still has almost no research and no depth). He doesn't seem to understand the depth of issues. He also probably overestimates the relative strategic ability of front-line employees vs. top consultants and SVPs (sorry for being elitist) and the problems of pure democracy. Not to mention that some companies really do need to keep certain info private.
My background: Young junior Director at a Fortune-20 firm with post-advanced-degree experience at a top 3 management consulting firm.
What matters now consist of 5 chapters about concepts of organizations and management that Gary Hamel feel are under-appreciated and need to get more focus. They are things that matters now. The things that matter now are 1) Values, 2) Innovation, 3) Adaptability, 4) Passion, and 5) Ideology. Each of these have their own chapter in which Gary Hamel rants about the current practices and makes some recommendations about each of these things that matter.
The first chapter covers values and with this Hamel mainly focuses on ethics and contribution to the society. A key point he makes is that capitalism and contribution to society are not contradictions but go hand in hand. The second chapter talks about innovation and how companies that won't continuously innovate will not be able to survive. In innovation he also includes design and spends some time deconstructing Apple. The third chapter cover adaptability, the ability to respond to changes, where he talks about the rapidly changing environment and how companies are structures in a way to actually prevent those changes.
The last two chapters: Passion and Ideology are closer to his previous work on the future of management. Passion talks about how we need to unleash the workforce and stop controlling them but to find and create passion for what they are doing. The last chapter, Ideology, talks about the assumptions behind management and how we'll need to adopt new principles and ideology of management. This also talks about freeing people, creating self-organization, flattening the hierarchy and similar things he also mentions in his previous work on the future of management. In this chapter he gives a lot of case studies: WL Gore, Morningstar, and HCLT. Especially the Morningstar chapter is nice where he expands a bit more on his earlier HBR article "First fire all the managers".
The book, like other books from Gary Hamel, is very well written. Hamel has a strong opinion and knows how to express his opinion, though at times it felt like pure ranting. Also, he knows what he is talking about and comes with interesting examples. All of this makes it an easy and entertaining read. I still prefer his earlier "Future of Management" as I felt that was slightly better structured, but this is definitively an excellent read also. Definitively recommended.
But what happens when the past is no longer a proxy for the future? What happens when the arc of change suddenly shifts from incremental to exponential? These are questions that Gary Hamel ponders in his latest book, What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation. And if Hamel's answers to these questions are correct, the survival of many corporations and their managers may very well depend upon their letting go of familiar assumptions and embracing the unprecedented realities that now define business in the twenty-first century. Put simply, a nineteenth century management model is unsustainable in a twenty-first century world. And while this premise may appear intuitively obvious, acting on this premise may be the most difficult challenge facing business leaders today. Unfortunately, according to Hamel, most business leaders appear poised to fail.
With the rapid convergence of accelerating change, ubiquitous connectivity, and escalating complexity spawned by the transformational power of the Internet, we have been suddenly thrust into a world where the past is indeed no longer a proxy for the future. And while the future may be very different, it is not necessarily unpredictable; it just needs to be predicted differently. That's because the future no longer begins with a managerial elite charged with orchestrating our institutions; rather, the future today is more likely to start on the fringes in a hyper-connected world far from the control of those who think that they are still in charge. Hamel points out that, while the future may no longer be an extrapolation from the past, it is nevertheless hidden in plain sight. Quoting the author William Gibson, Hamel reminds us "The future has already happened, it's just not evenly distributed."
According to Hamel, companies miss the future not because it's unpredictable or unknowable, but because it's unpalatable and disconcerting. They miss the future because both they and their institutions need to quickly learn that "organizations lose relevance when the rate of internal change lags the pace of external change." This means the most important question for any organization is: "Are we changing as fast as the world around us?" If companies are to thrive in a world where the past is no longer a proxy for the future, they are going to need to change the way they change.
The sudden emergence of accelerating change means that everything now changes exponentially. Unfortunately, business leaders don't have much experience with exponential change. They are much more experienced in the ways of discipline and efficiency shaped by a management ideology where control is the principle preoccupation of most management systems. However, in times of accelerating change, it isn't the most controlled or the most efficient organizations that survive, but those that are the most adaptable and resilient.
Traditional organizations are not designed to be adaptable or to manage at the pace of exponential change; they're designed for discipline, efficiency, and steering incremental change. And when they do make large-scale changes, it's often in the face of a traumatic crisis. As Hamel observes, "Review the history of the average corporation and you'll discover long periods of incremental change punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change." When exponential change supplants incremental change as the norm, the capacity to change without trauma becomes essential for the simple reason that the severe stress of never ending crises is unsustainable for most human organizations. That's why Hamel advocates, "Building organizations that are as resilient as they are efficient may be the most fundamental business challenge of our time."
The greatest impediments to building resilient organizations are the control systems that have served as the standard of management excellence. Resilience requires innovation, creativity, exploration and experimentation. To be resilient, managers must have a capacity for iterative learning, which means that they must have a willingness to take risks, to sometimes fail, and to learn from what are hopefully small failures. While embracing explorative failure may be a hard adjustment for control-oriented managers, they may not have a choice because avoidance of small failures in times of great change may turn out to be the fastest pathway to ultimate failure in a world where only the innovative survive.
If companies are to cultivate the innovation that they need to be resilient and adaptive, Hamel argues that they need to make sure that the senior leaders don't dominate the strategy discussion. Instead, the conversation about company strategy needs to be shaped by individuals who are emotionally invested in the future rather than experienced in the past. This means expanding the diversity of those who shape strategy. Hamel suggests, "One simple way of increasing diversity is to overweight every team and decision-making body with individuals who are younger than the company average, have worked in other industries, and aren't based in the head office."
Creating the future in a twenty-first century world reshaped by change, connectivity, and complexity requires a paradigm shift in the ways we manage organizations. Managing great change is only possible if we change how we manage. Those business leaders who have the courage to embrace new assumptions and new ways of thinking by building organizations that are designed to adapt rather than to control will be better poised to meet the challenges of an unprecedented exponential world.
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text: amazing banner by keiran Hey people. During this time period of a balanced meta (shh Queen haters), we decided to bring another fun thing for you guys to enjoy until Doomsday; the RUPL. Some of you will already have seen this in Neverused, and we're goning to run more or less the same thing, but with a few minor differences. The goal of this Premier League is to allow both you newcomers and veterans to relive the glory days of our beloved tier, and play in past metagames, which are very different from our current one by virtue of different Pokemon, lack of BW2 move tutors, and lack of some Dream World abilities. Many of the metas you'll be playing will have "broken shit", if I may be so straightforward. But that does not mean that these metagames aren't fun! I've gone over our choice of past stages with RU's greatest vets, and we've decided on a grand total of six different stages in RU's histroy for you guys to enjoy once again. These are: Stage 0 - Initial RU - Banned: Aerodactyl, Charizard, Escavalier, Nidoqueen, Sawsbuck, Sigilyph, Spiritomb, Tangrowth, Victreebel, Whimsicott - Allowed: Alakazam, Blastoise, Claydol, Cofagrigus, Cresselia, Dugtrio, Gastrodon, Gligar, Honchkrow, Krookodile, Porygon-Z, Rhyperior, Sableye, Sharpedo, Umbreon, Venomoth, Yanmega - all BW2-exclusive moves and abilities are banned - all DW abilities from Spooky Manor and Rugged Mountain are banned (most notable ones are Alakazam, Hitmonlee, Magmortar, Jynx, Sableye, Volbeat) - SmashPass is allowed Stage 2 - December 2011 - Banned: Aerodactyl, Escavalier, Golurk, Nidoqueen, Sigilyph, Spiritomb, Stoutland, Whimsicott - Allowed: Claydol, Cofagrigus, Dugtrio, Gligar, Honchkrow, Krookodile, Porygon-Z, Sharpedo - all BW2-exclusive moves and abilities are banned - Snow Warning is banned Stage 5 - February 2012 - Banned: Escavalier, Nidoqueen, Stoutland - Allowed: Claydol, Cofagrigus, Gligar, Honchkrow, Sharpedo - all BW2-exclusive moves and abilities are banned - Snow Warning is banned Stage 7 - June 2012 - Banned: Durant, Escavalier, Nidoqueen, Stoutland - Allowed: Cofagrigus - all BW2-exclusive moves and abilities are banned - Snow Warning is banned Stage 15 - February 2013 - Banned: (current) - Allowed: (current) Stage 16 - April 2013 - Banned: ???? - Allowed: ???? I've decided to keep it nice and simple, by telling you what you can/can't use in each stage. I've not provided a DW ability banlist, but most of them are common knowledge, and if you're unsure, feel free to ask me or anyone else who you think can help you. Of course, it wouldn't be a Premier League without teams now, would it? I present to you the following managers and co-managers and their respective teams: We're still waiting on artwork for this project, but it should be available by the time the RUPL starts (which is going to be after SPL ends, as the vets need time to concentrate on the arguably more important tournament). This is after all meant for fun, so even if you're a noob at RU, please don't hesitate to sign up! We'll try out best to include everybody who signs up into this tournament, as the main purpose of this tournament is to try and introduce more people into Rarelyused and to have a good time, with vets vs vets, noobs vs noobs, and of course vets vs noobs :) Please follow this format when you sign up: ---- Oh yeah, this is also my 2k, so I guess it would be fitting for me to include a shoutout to the awesome friends I've made on Smogon. Some of you I've known for only a short while but you've already left a strong impression on me, some are people that I rarely have much contact with but that I admire a great deal, and some of you have been with me since the very beginning, through thick and thin. Suffice to say, you guys rock, and you're the ones that keep me here Hide (Move your mouse to the hide area to reveal the content) Show Hide Hide Hide Arcticblast - I've only recently gotten to know you man, but I've come to respect you as you're charming, witty and not interested in boring ou stuff. i'm really thankful for the mentorship programme so that i've gotten to know people like you, hope to keep it up :) also best battler on smogon, check out his ou stall team Birkal - Birkal you're one of the people that I wish I got to interact with a bit more, but you're probably Smogon's best leader, and an extremely charismatic person. Thanks for introducing me to The Smog and the Mentorship Program man, you'll go far here. BROStime - The name really says it all :) You're one of my closest friends here, a really cool guy with a great personality, and my main punching bag that hits back just as much as it takes. Get a freakin' badge man, you'll also go far the way you're going. Calm Pokemaster - One of my closest friends from C&C days, I just wish you were around more often :| I know you're studying hard, but remember that if you ever wanna chat, hit me up on IRC bro. You'd better get that scholarship :) complete_legitimacy: compleg <3 amazing battler in both of my main tiers that i wish i could emulate, and a great irc presence. you use n_n way too much though bro double01 - people give you the bumrap lol. anyway bro it's a pleasure to have met you, you're another great battler and a really funny dude :) dragonboy52 - uhhh... see above? both amazing contributors, both from India, both not around nearly enough for me.. sorry man but the same thing really applies to you lol Frizy - My favourite little perv. You're a hilarious guy Frizy and I wish I'd gotten to know you a while ago. Keep it up bro Furai - F***y remember how we met? cringeworthy lol, but I'm glad we've kept in contact man. I'm glad you don't judge me on my Uber skills or you probably wouldn't have much to say to me lol. Really friendly guy who can command the strongest Pokemon like it's nothing. ily bro Harsha - good ol' harsha :) your change from being the dude who churned out a RMT every week to a man respected all across smogon and with a powerful badgeset is very impressive. star user man, and thanks for adding me on facebook Haunter - Haunter I wish we'd gotten to know eachother better... very respectable admin, but what I actually wanted to let you know was that you're the one that kicked me into shape in my noob days. 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