Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel
Dr. Gary P. Hamelis an American management expert. He is a founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm based in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
demand today too-much
Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.
struggle top-down political
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
average return strategy
Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.
ignorance trouble profit
If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.
thinking ideas world
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.
business ideas industry
Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.
loyalty irrelevance long
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
top-management belief renewal
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
commitment justice joy
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
self challenges company
Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.
world
Are we changing as fast as the world around us?
imagination gaps imagine
Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.
believe emotional strategy
We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.
dna organization
Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.