Another surprising new Corvette owner is Gary Hamel, the global business consultant and author.

FORBES: Zoom Zoom Zoom

Gary Hamel and the Management Innovation Exchange have shared many examples of companies engaging in such free flowing models.

FORBES: Building a Shared-Purpose Organization Requires Job Mobility and Flexibility

Economist Paul Romer and strategist Gary Hamel see something deeper at work.

FORBES: Digital rules

The strategy consultant Gary Hamel is a leading advocate for rethinking management.

WSJ: The End of Management

One is the group of thought leaders like Roger Martin, Gary Hamel and Clayton Christensen, among many others, who are generating the solid intellectual case for change.

FORBES: Connect

As Gary Hamel argues in his book, The Future of Management, the vast majority of enterprises still operate via management models designed for an unskilled labor force manufacturing widgets.

FORBES: How To Close The Customer Expectation Divide

Author, journalist, and Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick greeted a crowd that included tech thought leaders Esther Dyson, Gary Hamel, and Scott Cook, and social media entrepreneurs Jack Dorsey (Twitter) and Laurel Touby (Media Bistro).

FORBES: Calling All Technological Optimists

But it also comes from management gurus such as Gary Hamel, who, in The Future of Management, observes that technology changes and grows by leaps and bounds all the time, but corporate management has barely changed in 100 years.

FORBES: Transforming CIOs from Benevolent Dictators to Product Managers

They join other thought leaders, including Alan W. Brown, John Seely Brown, Rod Collins, Bill George, Ranjay Gulati, John Hagel, Gary Hamel, Umair Haque, Vlatka Hlupic, Roger Martin, Lisa Earle McLeod, Vineet Nayar, Franz Roeoesli, Fred Reichheld and Jeff Sutherland.

FORBES: The New Management Paradigm & John Mackey's Whole Foods