Gary Hamel quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. View quote
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. View quote
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not. View quote
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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank. View quote
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it. View quote
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions. (Gary Hamel)
All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. View quote
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform. View quote
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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. View quote
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. (Gary Hamel)
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. View quote
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