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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Business Business Model Fact Innovative Inventing Matter Model Mostly Often Serendipity

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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Billions Companies Focusing Innovate Innovation Luxury Most Out Processing Transactions While

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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Anglican Attended Back Church Consumer Critic Easy Energetic Enjoyed Found Frequently Just Lived London Outside Pew Row Singing Ten Ten Years Thoughtful Warmer Years

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Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: America Apple Companies Exceed Exemplary Expectations Few Lots Phone Provide Regularly Support Truth

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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Building Century Corporate Imply Most Organizations Practices Return Us Want Welfare 19Th Century

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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Beating Bends Breaks Ceo Politician Promise Takes Trust Truth

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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Acting Believe Faith Individuals Institutions Integrity Interests Just Leaders Longer Lost Most Most Powerful Powerful Society

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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Appetites Being Corporate Enslaved Leaders Own Purpose Risk Run Slaves Social Some

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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.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Accomplishment Against Also Expediency Impetus Individual Insurance More Necessary Policy Purpose Sense Than Uplifting

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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

~Gary Hamel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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