Gary Hamel

Quotes

• “As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying ou...”
• “The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cas...”
• “In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organi...”
• “Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future....”
• “Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust tho...”
• “To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' ti...”
• “At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Sams...”
• “Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, ...”
• “Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't...”
• “... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to inven...”
• “I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of ev...”
• “You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or w...”
• “A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy”