164 Quotes by Gary Hamel

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.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism – but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

It’s important to remember that innovators in business don’t always get a platform.

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.

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

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can’t, you’ll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

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.

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.

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.