Gary Hamel Quotes

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

Gary Hamel
New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight... 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.

Gary Hamel
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
All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

Gary Hamel
Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

Gary Hamel
In the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than competitors, the core competencies that spawn unanticipated products.

Gary Hamel
A company surrenders today's businesses when it gets smaller faster than it gets better. A company surrenders tomorrow's businesses when it gets better without getting different.

Gary Hamel
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 to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

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There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

Gary Hamel