Gary Hamel Quotes About Innovation

Quotes about: Innovation

• The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

  Gary Hamel

  Change, Innovation, Might

• We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

  Gary Hamel

  Creativity, Years, Innovation

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  Gary Hamel

  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Inspire

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

• 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

  Creating, Innovation, Growth

• Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

  Gary Hamel

  Perspective, Innovation, Different

• 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 only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

  Gary Hamel

  Loyalty, Irrelevance, Long

  "Gary Hamel On Innovating Innovation". Interview with Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. December 04, 2012.

• **New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

  Gary Hamel

  Lying, Ambition, Innovation

• Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

  Gary Hamel

  Irrelevance, Innovation

• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

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  Innovation, Rewards, Management

  "The Magic of Middle Management" by Luise Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

• The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world.

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  Heart, Differences, Community

• Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

  Gary Hamel

  Luxury, Innovation, Company

• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

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  Live Life, Innovation, Ease

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.54, John Wiley & Sons

• In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Innovation, Strategy

• In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight - insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Journey, Discovery

• Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

  Gary Hamel

  Running, Innovation, Growth

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