Gary Hamel Short Quotes

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

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Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

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

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

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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

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

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Core competence is communication, involvement, and a deep commitment to working across organizational boundaries.

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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.

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

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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes—while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation, and encourages perseverance. In so doing, it transforms great talent into exceptional accomplishment.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.

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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.

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