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
struggle top-down political
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
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.
perseverance persistence battle
Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.
thinking different surprise
The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.
leader able done
A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
organization leader hierarchy
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.
giving effort priorities
To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers , and generate options.
heart yield narrative
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.
practice organization want
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.
luxury innovation company
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.
our-world church internet
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.
book thinking office
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.
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