All Gary Hamel Quotes
- 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 human beings into… Awed
- Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever. Been
- The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise. Always Arrive
- The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen. Goal
- Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it. Any
- Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future. Battle
- Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation
- The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. Almost Always
- The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. Acts
- Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have… Amity
- A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. Encourages
- Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. Advantage
- An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety. Accomplishment
- 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 loyalty. It's the… Customer
- The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only… Authority
- An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. Advantage
- As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. Accidents
- Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. Businesses
- Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. Business
- I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. Ardent
- I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not. Any
- In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies. Citizens
- In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. Commoditized
- In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case. Add
- It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform. Always Get