Gary Hamel Quotes

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Change never bothers me, not really.

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.

I believe in no final solutions.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can