Gary Hamel Quotes

• The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

  Gary Hamel

  Imagination, Goal, Might

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• The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

  Gary Hamel

  Thinking, Different, Problem

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• Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

  Gary Hamel

  Running, Innovation, Growth

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• You can't use an old map to see a new land.

  Gary Hamel

  Land, Use, Maps

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• Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

  Gary Hamel

  Change, Horse, Together

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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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  Successful, Simple, Lessons

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.115, John Wiley & Sons

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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 its pretty much the whole game today.

  Gary Hamel

  Past, Games, Creating

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

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  Past, Long, Important

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

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  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Inspire

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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• Las mejores innovaciones -tanto sociales como económicas- surgen de la búsqueda de ideales nobles y atemporales: alegría, sabiduría, belleza, verdad, igualdad, comunidad, sostenibilidad y, sobre todo, amor. Estas son las cosas por las que vivimos, y las innovaciones que realmente marcan la diferencia son las que mejoran la vida. Y por eso el corazón de la innovación es el deseo de reencantar el mundo.

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  Heart, Differences, Community

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• 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.

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  Names, Entrepreneur, Bullets

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• Descubrir es el viaje; comprender es el destino.

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  Journey, Discovery, Destination

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• Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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  Irrelevance, Innovation

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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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  Inspiración, Cambio, Inspiración

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons

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• The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

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  Change, Innovation, Might

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• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

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  Tired, Creativity, Past

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

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  Creativity, Years, Innovation

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• Only stupid questions create wealth.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Wealth, Stupid Questions

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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.

  Gary Hamel

  Strong, Effort, Scales

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• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Growth, Might

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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.

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  Risk, Important, Today

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• From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

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  Revolution, Patriot, Makers

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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.

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  Innovation, Rewards, Management

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

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

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  Struggle, Top Down, Political

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• Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

  Gary Hamel

  Imagination, Gaps, Imagine

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