Gary Hamel

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

— Gary Hamel

Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.

— Gary Hamel

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

— Gary Hamel

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

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Win small, win early, win often.

— Gary Hamel

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

— Gary Hamel

Only stupid questions create wealth.

— Gary Hamel

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

— Gary Hamel

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

— Gary Hamel

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

— Gary Hamel

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

— Gary Hamel

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

— Gary Hamel

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

— Gary Hamel

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

— Gary Hamel

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

— Gary Hamel

The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

— Gary Hamel

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet…

— Gary Hamel

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization…

— Gary Hamel

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

— Gary Hamel

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

— Gary Hamel

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of…

— Gary Hamel

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

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

— Gary Hamel

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover…

— Gary Hamel

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

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and,…

— Gary Hamel

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out…

— Gary Hamel

One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the…

— Gary Hamel

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative…

— Gary Hamel

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some…

— Gary Hamel

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the…

— Gary Hamel

The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom,…

— Gary Hamel

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

— Gary Hamel

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

— Gary Hamel

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

— Gary Hamel

people are all there is to an organization

— Gary Hamel

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

— Gary Hamel

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

— Gary Hamel

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

— Gary Hamel

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

— Gary Hamel