Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel
Dr. Gary P. Hamelis an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
strong effort scales
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.
years innovation four
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
names entrepreneur bullets
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.
successful simple lessons
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.
goal imagination might
The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.
irrelevance innovation
Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.
top-management belief renewal
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
self challenges company
Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.
demand today too-much
Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.
successful creative enough
... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own. [2002] p.46
earthquakes yesterday valleys
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
heart differences community
The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world.
live-life innovation ease
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.
apples america phones
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.