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I feel like I was just one pair of insanely high heels away from getting propositioned on the street. — B.B. Hamel

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. — Gary Hamel

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be. — Gary Hamel

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere. — Gary Hamel

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies. — Gary Hamel

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. — Gary Hamel

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. — Gary Hamel

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. — Gary Hamel

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever. — Gary Hamel

But he was a filthy pirate. They were Arobynn Hamel's assassin-educated, wealthy, refined. Slavery was beneath them. — Sarah J. Maas

Thank you for the oil," he added. "My skin was a little dry. — Sarah J. Maas

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. — Gary Hamel

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. — Gary Hamel

With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable. — Ocian Hamel-Smith

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies. — Gary Hamel

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility. — Gary Hamel

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations. — Gary Hamel

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth. — Gary Hamel

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it. — Gary Hamel

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. — Gary Hamel

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it. — Gary Hamel

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox. — Gary Hamel

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. — Gary Hamel

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history. — Gary Hamel

People are all there is to an organization — Gary Hamel

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller. — Gary Hamel

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. — Gary Hamel

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy — Gary Hamel

But all of these things now exist. (What? Hogwarts isn't real?) — Gary Hamel

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. — Gary Hamel

All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience. — Gary Hamel

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform. — Gary Hamel

I was drawn to him inexplicably, like a planet pulled towards a star. — B.B. Hamel

There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again. — Gary Hamel

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it. — Gary Hamel

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. — Gary Hamel

Only stupid questions create wealth. — Gary Hamel

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble. — Gary Hamel

When it comes to innovation, a company's legacy beliefs are a much bigger liability than its legacy costs. - Gary Hamel — Jackie Fenn

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination. — Gary Hamel

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous. — Gary Hamel

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material. — Keanu Reeves

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. — Gary Hamel

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. — Gary Hamel

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. — Gary Hamel

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. — Gary Hamel

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming. — Gary Hamel

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination — Gary Hamel

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. — Gary Hamel

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating. — Gary Hamel

Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company. — Gary Hamel

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. — Gary Hamel

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen. — Gary Hamel

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize. — Gary Hamel

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future. — Gary Hamel

your dad just got married without telling you about it. — B.B. Hamel

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA. — Gary Hamel

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else. — Gary Hamel

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. — Gary Hamel

Are we changing as fast as the world around us? — Gary Hamel

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. — Gary Hamel

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. — Gary Hamel

We don't know where we're going, but we're not going to stray from familiar paths. — Gary Hamel

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard. — Gary Hamel

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. — Gary Hamel

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to. — Gary Hamel

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. — Gary Hamel

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. — Gary Hamel

You can't use an old map to see a new land. — Gary Hamel

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries. — Gary Hamel

People shouldn't find out how trashy I am. — Veronica Hamel

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it. — Gary Hamel