Gary Hamel Quotes - Page 2

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

  Gary Hamel

  Innovation, Rewards, Management

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

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• Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

  Gary Hamel

  Business, Ideas, Industry

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• 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

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• Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

  Gary Hamel

  Attitude, Accomplishment, Aspiration

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• 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

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• Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

  Gary Hamel

  Justice, Leader, Soul

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• 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 strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

  Gary Hamel

  Names, Bullets, Firsts

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• An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

  Gary Hamel

  New Horizons, Talent, Advantage

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Gary Hamel

  Ignorance, Trouble, Profit

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• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  Gary Hamel

  Struggle, Top Down, Political

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• Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

  Gary Hamel

  Risk, Important, Today

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• 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 our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Matter, Deaf

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• What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

  Gary Hamel

  Our World, Church, Internet

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• 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 no precedent.

  Gary Hamel

  Organization, Way, Precedent

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

  Gary Hamel

  Squares, Numbers, People

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• Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

  Gary Hamel

  Water, Influence

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• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Innovation, Strategy

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• 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 incumbents is dead wrong.

  Gary Hamel

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• Win small, win early, win often.

  Gary Hamel

  Winning, Small Wins

  "Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life". Book by Gary Hamel, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

  Gary Hamel

  Perseverance, Persistence, Important

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, Harvard Business Press

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• Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

  Gary Hamel

  Demand, Today, Too Much

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• Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

  Gary Hamel

  Dna, Organization

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

  Gary Hamel

  Office, Political, Voting

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• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  Gary Hamel

  Community, Adding Value, Hierarchy

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• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

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