Dr. Gary Hamel is the founder of Strategos and a management expert. Focused on bringing his knowledge to a global stage, Dr. Hamel is recognized as being one of the most influential business thinkers working with leading companies from around the world. Here is a listing to some of the most iconic Gary Hamel quotes to remember.
“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.”
“Are we changing as fast as the world around us?”
“From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.”
“Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.”
“Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.”
“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.”
“In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record – it’s easy to discover who’s in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don’t appear on any organization chart.”
“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.”
“Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.”
“Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.”
“Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.”
“Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.”
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“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 docile employees.”
“Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.”
“Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it. You’ve got one option now – to shoot first. You’ve got to out innovate the innovators.”
“Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.”
“Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.”
“The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management’s unexamined beliefs.”
“The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.”
“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.”
“The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.”
“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.”
“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.”
“There’s a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.”
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“This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.”
“To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers , and generate options.”
“Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.”
“Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.”
“We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can’t. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.”
“We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.”
“We’ve reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.”
“What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination”
“Win small, win early, win often.”
“You can’t use an old map to see a new land.”
“Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.”
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