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You can't use an old map to see a new land.

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Gary Hamel
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.
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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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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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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.
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