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Gary Hamel
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Gary Hamel
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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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.
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Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.
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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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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.
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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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The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.
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Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.
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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.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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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.
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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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There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.
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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.
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Discovery is the journey insight is the destination.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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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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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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