Gary Hamel Quotes

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

I can't be left unsupervised.

The word to regulate implies in its nature full power over the thing to be regulated, it excludes, necessarily, the action of all others that would perform the same operation on the same thing.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Who watches the watchmen?

Trust is fine, but control is better.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

Self regulation is important but it is not enough.

There is a fine line between constructive oversight and unconstructive meddling.

Power should be a check to power.

Oversight was not meant to be comfortable.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

All bureaucracies have to be weeded and watched.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.