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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

~Gary Hamel

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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Because Become Beliefs Churches Conventional Fast Held Less Organized Organized Religion Programs Relevant Religion Roles Routines Structures

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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Adaptable Become Biological Churches Get Institutions Internet Less Life Loosely Markets More Most Older Organized Other Our Our World Resilient Stock Things True Why World

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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Company Crisis Customers Large New Organizations Otherwise Past Path Set Shareholders Take Were Worship

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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

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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.

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Topics: Bargain Comfort Commands Cosmic Duty Every Faith Heart Human Human Life Inconvenient Life Moment Moral Narrative Other Rather Seem Side Significance System Yield

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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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Topics: Become Centuries Elaborate Highly Over Process Religion Roles Routines Specialized

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To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Adaptable Challenge Channels Create Experiment Follow Freedom Go Innovative Need Organization Outside Passions People Precedent Risks Take Time Waste Waste Time

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Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.

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Topics: Acquire Being Company Momentum Much Often Once Over Reality Resources Stopped Successful Things Time Way Will

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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Billion Existence Exists Four Genetic Innovation Our Owe Species Thanks Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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