Gary Hamel Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.
To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
[2002] p.46
[2002] p.46
There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.