Gary Hamel Quotes

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

The best strategy is always to be very strong.

Most important, you can have a war room, you can have a war plan, but if your general - in this case, it's Donald Trump - isn't following the plan and is tweeting or is going and giving interviews that contradict the plan, then none of this really matters.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.