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Gary Hamel Biography

Dr. Gary P. Hamel (born 1954) is an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago.

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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.

Facts, Individual, Made, Society, Unto

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Gap, Gaps, Imagination, Imagine, Smaller

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

Change, Dna, Organization, Start

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Become, Century, Hierarchy, Highly, Institutionalized, Roles

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

Enduring, Innovation, Lots, Management, Rewards, Vanguard

Win small, win early, win often.

Early, Small, Small Wins, Win, Winning

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

Changing, Fast, World

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.

Century, Corporate, Organization, Practice, Return, Want

The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.

Growth, Might, Nothing, Opportunity, Seeing

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

Arrogance, Change, Companies, Extraordinary, Guaranteeing, Way

Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?

Carry, Organization, Same, Stink, Strategy, Too Late

people are all there is to an organization

Organization, People

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

Believe, Break, Emotional, Five, Strategy

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

Change, Organization, Precedent, Safely, Sometime, Way

Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

Catch, Creating, Opportunity, Playing, Space

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Companies, Creating, Economy, Growth, Innovation, Revolutions

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.

Book, Intimidate, Office, Professors, Think, Thinking

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but its pretty much the whole game today.

Creating, Engaging, Games, Leader, Past, Pretty

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.

Bullets, Entrepreneur, Forging, Garage, Names, Shoot

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Company, Enjoy, Future, Goal, Imagine

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