Gary Hamel Quotes

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

This is the age of disruption.

Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.