In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. — 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 a company on a new path. — 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
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.'… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
