Gary Hamel Quotes

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

Life can change in an instant.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.