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Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

Gary Hamel

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Gary Hamel
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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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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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
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