Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. "
Gary Hamel
Top
Always
Barriers
Related Quotes:
" I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms. "
Gary Hamel
Bubbles
World
Live
" A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page. "
Gary Hamel
Home
Radio
Bag
" 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
Opportunities
Company
Business
" In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. "
Gary Hamel
World
Go
Companies
" Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful. "
Gary Hamel
Momentum
Way
Time
" In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart. "
Gary Hamel
Matter
Easy
Natural
" Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path. "
Gary Hamel
Path
Company
Crisis
" The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. "
Gary Hamel
Others
Fact
Individual
" It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value. "
Gary Hamel
Cost
Solution
Value
" 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. "
Gary Hamel
Past
Tired
Creativity
" 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
Important
Strategy
Loyalty
" It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests. "
Gary Hamel
Faith
Powerful
Integrity
" An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety. "
Gary Hamel
Insurance
Accomplishment
More
" 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
Change
Build
You
" Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. "
Gary Hamel
Matter
Fact
Business Model
" 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
Moral
Heart
Duty
" I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists. "
Gary Hamel
Time
School
Management
" Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. "
Gary Hamel
Community
Value
Moment
" In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case. "
Gary Hamel
Practice
Power
Individual
" 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
Justice
Courage
Wisdom
" Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations. "
Gary Hamel
Phone
Support
Truth
" An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. "
Gary Hamel
Exploring
Competitive
New
" A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. "
Gary Hamel
Innovation
Sacrifice
Perseverance
" Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. "
Gary Hamel
Authority
Turn
Political
" In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit. "
Gary Hamel
Free
Tea
You
" 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
Create
Doing
" I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. "
Gary Hamel
Office
Think
Way
" Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. "
Gary Hamel
Like
Become
Star
" I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business. "
Gary Hamel
Burden
Choice
Believe
" 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
Management
Innovation
Going