Gary Hamel Quotes

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

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• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

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• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

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• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if ‘do unto others’ really was a rule.

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• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

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• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

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• Obviously, you don’t have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

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• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

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• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

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• It’s important to remember that innovators in business don’t always get a platform.

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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.

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• In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

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• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

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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.

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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.

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• Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

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• As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

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• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

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• An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

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• At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung’s Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

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Gary Hamel (62)

Birth:	1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Consultant, Professor, Speaker

About

Dr. Gary P. Hamel is an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago. He graduated from Andrews University in 1975. He has been was Visiting Professor of International Business at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. He earned his Ph.D. in 1990. He is a visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School. He is also a member of the Reliance Innovation Council formed by Reliance Industries Limited, India. He has written several books include: The Future of Management, What Matters Now, and Leading the Revolution.

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