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Gary Hamel  Quotes
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

—Gary Hamel

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AccidentsBeingsSum
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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even...

—Gary Hamel

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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

—Gary Hamel

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

—Gary Hamel

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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to...

—Gary Hamel

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ChurchEasyFound
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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.

—Gary Hamel

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AgainHereLives
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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 it’s pretty much the whole...

—Gary Hamel

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Today
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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

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CompaniesInnovationWhile
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

—Gary Hamel

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AgainstPurposeSense
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I’m a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on...

—Gary Hamel

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System
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In most languages, ‘control’ is the first synonym for the word ‘manage.’ Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

—Gary Hamel

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ControlStandardsWord
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Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.

—Gary Hamel

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

—Gary Hamel

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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management’s unexamined beliefs.

—Gary Hamel

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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

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Large organizations don’t worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn’t take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

—Gary Hamel

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CrisisPastPath
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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,...

—Gary Hamel

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

—Gary Hamel

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ChildLessStar
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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...

—Gary Hamel

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StupidWhether
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it’s not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs – it’s because they’ve held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

—Gary Hamel

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FastLess
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To create an organization that’s adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to ‘waste’ time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

—Gary Hamel

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

—Gary Hamel

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BusinessesExpenseFail
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While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn’t unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of...

—Gary Hamel

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AbilityFinancialWhile
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It’s important to remember that innovators in business don’t always get a platform.

—Gary Hamel

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PlatformRemember
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault – a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this...

—Gary Hamel

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

—Gary Hamel

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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

—Gary Hamel

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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

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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.

—Gary Hamel

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ChangeGritSuccess
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don’t train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

—Gary Hamel

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HighIdeas
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Building human-centered organizations doesn’t imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don’t want to be nannied.

—Gary Hamel

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BuildingCenturyReturn
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

—Gary Hamel

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CompanyEscapeRequires
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you’ll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

—Gary Hamel

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

—Gary Hamel

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OftenSeek
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

—Gary Hamel

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LeaderOthers
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… all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46

—Gary Hamel

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BusinessCreativityStrategy
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It’s close to being functionally flawless – like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google’s home...

—Gary Hamel

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CloseCoffee
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It’s not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor – yet in most companies, it takes only one ‘nyet’ to kill a project stone...

—Gary Hamel

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DeadTakesTimes
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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

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AdvantageLikelyTalent
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I don’t know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

—Gary Hamel

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UniverseWhether
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You can’t build an adaptable organization without adaptable people – and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

—Gary Hamel

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AdaptableBuild
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It’s always redefining its ‘core business’ in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

—Gary Hamel

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OpenWays
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**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...

—Gary Hamel

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BusinessCreativityStrategy
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I’m not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

—Gary Hamel

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BooksOfficeWhose
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

—Gary Hamel

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ProcessRoles
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

—Gary Hamel

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

—Gary Hamel

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Companies
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At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung’s Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

—Gary Hamel

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Tv
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At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty...

—Gary Hamel

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Heart
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes — while no becoming an extremist. … **Most companies don’t do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f

—Gary Hamel

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BusinessParadoxStrategy
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