Gary Hamel Quotes
born 1954 United States
Gary P. Hamel (born 1954) is an American management expert and a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.
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All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.
Core competence is communication, involvement, and a deep commitment to working across organizational boundaries.
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes—while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.
Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.
In the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than competitors, the core competencies that spawn unanticipated products.
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation, and encourages perseverance. In so doing, it transforms great talent into exceptional accomplishment.
Gary Hamel quoted in: Richard L. Daft (2014)
A company surrenders today's businesses when it gets smaller faster than it gets better. A company surrenders tomorrow's businesses when it gets better without getting different.
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.