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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
“We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Years #Innovation #Four
“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Perseverance #Sacrifice #Inspire
“From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Revolution #Patriot #Makers
“We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Creating #Innovation #Revolution
“Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Imagination #Gaps #Imagine
“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

#Commitment #Justice #Joy
“Win small, win early, win often.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Winning
“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
“The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Imagination #Goal #Might
“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Age #Alternatives #Able
“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Loyalty #Irrelevance #Long
“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 the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Real #Decision #Rebel
“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 poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Stupid #Writing #Garden
“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

#Opportunity #Growth #Way
“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.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Heart #Yield #Comfort
“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

#Practice #Organization #Want
“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

#Inspirational #Change #Inspiring
“When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Promise #Politician #Break
“Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Community #Adding Value #Hierarchy
“Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Religious #People #Moral
“Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Innovation #Rewards #Management
“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.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Giving #Effort #Priorities
“Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Stars #Children #Years
“Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Running #Innovation #Growth
“Are we changing as fast as the world around us?”
-- Gary Hamel

#World
“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.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Names #Entrepreneur #Bullets
“There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Growth #Way #Grows
“We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Opportunity #Moments #Possibility
“You can't use an old map to see a new land.”
-- Gary Hamel

#Land #Use #Maps

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