Gary Hamel Quotes About Strategy

Quotes about: Strategy

• Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

  Gary Hamel

  Change, Horse, Together

• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Loyalty, Irrelevance, Long

  "Gary Hamel On Innovating Innovation". Interview with Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. December 04, 2012.

• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Names, Bullets, Firsts

• In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Innovation, Strategy

• 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

  Organization, Too Late, 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Believe, Emotional, Strategy

• Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

  Gary Hamel

  Average, Return, Strategy

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