John Hagel III Quotes

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

You must change in order to survive.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.

I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Change is the healthiest way to survive.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.