164 Quotes by Gary Hamel

You can’t build an adaptable organization without adaptable people – and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

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.

In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight – insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.

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.

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

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management’s unexamined beliefs.

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.

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company’s name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can’t dodge the bullet – you’re going to have to shoot first. You’re going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

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