Gary Hamel Quotes

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

Firms gain comparative advantage from how good their people are. Retaining and attracting talent is a key point of competitive advantage in the global economy. We are seeing that play out, and there are implications for Australia, too. The idea that companies now compete on who can pay their workers the lowest - that's all changing.

The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.

Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.

One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors?

The second you get set in your ways is the second a newer, fresher, more innovative company is going to come in and take your market share.

Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

Our philosophy is to attract top talent and incentivise them to succeed. We have some of the top talent in the entire industry.

Boeing has won in the marketplace for 100 years because of innovation, and we need to continue to invest in innovation for the future. And our cash generation strength is what allows us to do that.

Moving our headquarters to Chicago is another significant step in our journey to build a better McDonald's. This world-class environment will continue to drive business momentum by getting us even closer to customers, encouraging innovation and ensuring great talent is excited about where they work.

It's just been this incredible steady climb, but I've seen a company that believes in me and has let me make mistakes, has let me grow and evolve and try and find new and inventive ways to use me. I feel like I came up through the farm system.

If big, old-fashioned businesses don't attract female talent, then small up-and-coming ones will, and they will end up winning.

Innovation is critical to the heartbeat of any successful corporation in the industrialized world.