Gary Hamel Organization Quotations

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.

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?

people are all there is to an organization

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.

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.