The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. — Gary Hamel Always Copy Share Image
Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller. — Gary Hamel Accomplish Copy Share Image
Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform. — Gary Hamel Always Copy Share Image
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating. — Gary Hamel Break Copy Share Image
There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize. — Gary Hamel Downsize Copy Share Image
Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA. — Gary Hamel Dna Copy Share Image
At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's… — Gary Hamel Anything Copy Share Image
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've… — Gary Hamel Because 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 Company Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Hamel Customer loyalty Copy Share Image
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… — Gary Hamel Cents Copy Share Image
There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer… — Gary Hamel Abandon Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel Accidents Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer… — Gary Hamel Believe Copy Share Image
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any… — Gary Hamel Ambition Copy Share Image
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning.… — Gary Hamel Ability Copy Share Image
Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's… — Gary Hamel Aphorism 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 Change Copy Share Image
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be. — Gary Hamel Change Copy Share Image
Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future. — Gary Hamel Battle Copy Share Image
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. — Gary Hamel Billions Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. — Gary Hamel Backward Copy Share Image
Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else. — Gary Hamel Demand Copy Share Image
Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever. — Gary Hamel Breaking the rules Copy Share Image
Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. — Gary Hamel Above average Copy Share Image
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. — Gary Hamel Goals Copy Share Image
What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination — Gary Hamel Economics Copy Share Image
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in… — Gary Hamel Advantage Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom… — Gary Hamel Add Copy Share Image
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your… — Gary Hamel Ability Copy Share Image
All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more… — Gary Hamel Creativity Copy Share Image
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. — Gary Hamel Adding value Copy Share Image
You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you… — Gary Hamel Business Copy Share Image
A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the… — Gary Hamel Able Copy Share Image
Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more… — Gary Hamel Challenges Copy Share Image
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most… — Gary Hamel Acting Copy Share Image
