Gary Hamel Quotes

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• Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.
• We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.
• In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.
• Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can…
• From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
• Only stupid questions create wealth.
• The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.
• Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.
• For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.
• 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.
• If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.
• Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.
• Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your…
• The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has…
• Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.
• There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for…
• 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 now - to…
• Are we changing as fast as the world around us?
• Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.
• We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

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