Gary Hamel Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.”

“Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.”

“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.”

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

“When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.”

“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.”