Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it. — Gary Hamel Intentions Copy Share Image
In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen. — Gary Hamel Goal Copy Share Image
You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you… — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards;… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want… — Gary Hamel Adaptability Copy Share Image
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. — Gary Hamel Advantage Copy Share Image
... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46 — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's… — Gary Hamel Aphorism Copy Share Image
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning.… — Gary Hamel Ability Copy Share Image
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any… — Gary Hamel Ambition Copy Share Image
The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom,… — Gary Hamel Beauty Copy Share Image
Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination — Gary Hamel Economics Copy Share Image
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. — Gary Hamel Goals Copy Share Image
Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else. — Gary Hamel Demand Copy Share Image
Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever. — Gary Hamel Breaking the rules Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future. — Gary Hamel Battle Copy Share Image
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be. — Gary Hamel Change Copy Share Image
Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA. — Gary Hamel Dna Copy Share Image
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer… — Gary Hamel Customer loyalty Copy Share Image
In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what.… — Gary Hamel Company Copy Share Image
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. — Gary Hamel Adding value Copy Share Image
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your… — Gary Hamel Ability Copy Share Image
All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more… — Gary Hamel Creativity Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in… — Gary Hamel Advantage Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel Accidents Copy Share Image