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Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel
American Businessman
Born: 1954
Business Companies Innovation Organization World You
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns. Gary Hamel
Best Heart Trust Matter Our Those Constancy Best Interests Seem Simply Goodwill Also Concerns Deaf Mistrust Truthfulness Interests Who Even Amity
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. Gary Hamel
Perseverance Innovation Sacrifice Purpose Inspires Noble Stimulates Encourages
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 it's pretty much the whole game today. Gary Hamel
Work Today Future Game Challenge Leader Employees Past Pretty Indifferent Been Optional Afford May In The Past Much Creating Engagement Engaging Whole
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
Power Employees Cold Tyrannical Only Blanket Employee Most Policy Policy Decisions Real Authority Egocentric Disenfranchised Lack Against Decisions Centralized CEO Engagement Companies Rebel Even
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites. Gary Hamel
Own Corporate Enslaved Run Some Risk Purpose Leaders Being Social Appetites Slaves
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. Gary Hamel
Knowledge World Returns Go Produce Who Companies
It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform. Gary Hamel
Business Remember Important Innovators Always Get Platform
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 Management Will Vanguard Advantage Most Source Lots Going Rewards Enduring Competitive Competitive Advantage
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not. Gary Hamel
You Design Universe Everyday Assure Evidence Thousands Contains Know Intelligent Any Whether Products
Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. Gary Hamel
Could Fail Expense Businesses
It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead. Gary Hamel
Entrepreneur Half Before Down Project Willing Would-Be Finding Only Investor Takes Most Dead Unusual Times Get Stone Turned Companies Dozen
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized. Gary Hamel
Life World Internet Become Older Other Our Churches Markets Our World More True Institutions Most Loosely Stock Get Organized Less Why Things Biological Resilient Adaptable
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines. Gary Hamel
Religion Become Hierarchies Highly Over Institutionalized Roles Process Elaborate Centuries Specialized Routines
To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions. Gary Hamel
Time Freedom Risks People Organization Challenge Experiment Waste Time Channels Innovative Follow Take Outside Go Passions Precedent Create Waste Need Adaptable
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. Gary Hamel
Innovation Thanks Our Genetic Years Existence Exists Owe Billion Species Four
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. Gary Hamel
Value Community Starts Adding Hierarchies Someone Online His Stops Influence Dynamic Inherently Moment
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
Natural Matter Organization Hierarchy Charge Easy Record Chart Leaders Most Discover Contrast Any Formal Public Companies Appear
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies. Gary Hamel
Democracy Voting Political Out Citizens Most Masters Option Office Companies
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
Buy Democracy You Political Free Party Tea Publish Markets Charged See Invest Open Individuals New Permission Fit Political Party Article Politically Anyone Form Tea Party Organize Need
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
Wisdom Truth Justice Courage Commitment Charity Joy Honor Values Beauty Remarkable Passionate Contributions Transcendent Fidelity Spawned
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. Gary Hamel
Management Top Almost Renewal Always Biggest Barriers Strategic Beliefs
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different. Gary Hamel
Great Better Revolution Sense Our Our Planet Security Something More Pursuit Demand Unsustainable Industrial Industrial Revolution Learned Equanimity Souls Ultimately Very Different Grandchildren Planet Last
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 Coffee Google Toothbrush Bag Like Maker Does Audio Close Being Flawless Page Product Radio
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
Business Opportunities Ways More Open Share New Fair Fair Share Redefining Always New Opportunities Up Than Avenues Company Captures Growth Adaptable Core
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. Gary Hamel
History You Change Organization Long Incremental Frantic Only Trivial Long Periods Most Periods Occasional Discover Review The History Of Fiddling Flavors Average Organizations Traumatic Two
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
You Change People Organization Build Only Individuals Without Want Adaptable
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