Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it. — 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 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
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be. — Gary Hamel 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 Copy Share Image
Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies. — Gary Hamel 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers ,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
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