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.

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.

You’ve done everything “right”.

  • You hired top talent.

  • You implemented best-practice processes.

  • You optimized governance, planning, and reporting.

Yet:

  • Innovative newcomers outpace your established firm with fewer resources

  • Your decision-making slows as coordination layers multiply

  • Bureaucracy resists your every attempt to remove it

  • Employee engagement quietly erodes 

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

 The result is administration 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

 

The Post-Managerial Era of Capitalism
(Cambridge University Press)

Available Now 

Author Hunter Hastings, guided by Reinventing Capitalism series editor Professor Arie Lewin (Duke University's Fuqua School of Business), delivers a clear-eyed analysis of why management science failed — and what’s replacing it.

You’ll explore:

  • The historical and philosophical roots of administration mode
  • Why management models collapse under complexity
  • Real-world edge cases breaking the paradigm today

Including organizations like:
Airbnb, Valve, Handu, 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).

Available Early 2026

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 administration vs. venture mode framework
  • Real-world examples of post-managerial success
  • A preview of the ideas shaping the next phase, Venture Mode

Designed for executives who sense the system is broken — and want the next model before it becomes mainstream.

  • Distills the core theme of The Post-Managerial Era Of Capitalism, Published by Cambridge University Press
  • Guided by executive experience and leading scholars
  • Grounded in economics, entrepreneurship, and real firms

This isn’t trend commentary.
It’s a paradigm shift.

Download the Executive Briefing

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.

Download the Executive Briefing