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Gary Hamel
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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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 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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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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All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.
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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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Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.
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There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.
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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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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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Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.
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Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.
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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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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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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.
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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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You can't use an old map to see a new land.
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Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.
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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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