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. Gary Hamel More Quotes by Gary Hamel More Quotes From Gary Hamel As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. Gary Hamel transcription contemplating errors Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. Gary Hamel stars children years 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. Gary Hamel practice would-be add The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. Gary Hamel individual made facts 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. Gary Hamel keyboards able age 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. Gary Hamel yield comfort heart The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world. Gary Hamel differences community heart 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. Gary Hamel office book thinking The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination. Gary Hamel predictions problem imagination Are we changing as fast as the world around us? Gary Hamel world In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart. Gary Hamel hierarchy organization leader Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company. Gary Hamel company self challenges Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. Gary Hamel strategy return average For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history. Gary Hamel possibility imagine imagination Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it. Gary Hamel suspects intention long Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it. Gary Hamel company business feels In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. Gary Hamel produce return world 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. Gary Hamel rebel decision real For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. Gary Hamel imagination past firsts Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late? Gary Hamel strategy organization too-late
