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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

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Gary Hamel
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
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We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.
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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.
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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.
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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
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Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.
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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.
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Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.
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Discovery is the journey insight is the destination.
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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.
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Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f
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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.
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Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
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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.
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The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.
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Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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