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Gary Hamel

(1954) Economist

121 quotes in 794 categories

Gary Hamel points out that humans create for the sheer joy of it, not just necessity. He argues that morality doesn’t require religion and that modern life offers unprecedented ease thanks to innovation. He warns that incrementalism is ending and that bold industry revolutions are needed for future success.

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Gary Hamel is an economist.

Quick Facts About Gary Hamel

Born: January 1, 1954
Profession: Economist
Notable works: Leading the Revolution: how to thrive in turbulent times by making innovation a way of life

About Gary Hamel

Gary P. Hamel is an American management consultant. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

Moment

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

Biggest challenge

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Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Business innovation

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Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

Accomplishment

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

Geography

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people are all there is to an organization

Organization

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The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Imagination

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Only stupid questions create wealth.

Foolishness

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

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

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

Business

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There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

Downsize

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

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

Business

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

Business

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Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

Business

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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by…

Appetites

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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a…

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Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage…

Beauty

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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here…

Ancestors

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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most…

Acting

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Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more…

Challenges

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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the…

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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some…

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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the…

Authority

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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative…

Comfort

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One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the…

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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out…

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Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that…

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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and,…

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Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other…

Change

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Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Flowing

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Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Innovation

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Win small, win early, win often.

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Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

Change

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

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

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

Community

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

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