Explore Quotes by Gary Hamel

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

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

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.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

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.

Win small, win early, win often.

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.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

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

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

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

There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.

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.

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

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

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.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

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.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.