Gary Hamel Quotes

Change before you're forced to change.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Different times need different types of leadership.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don't ever change or wait too long to make changes... It's very simple: Either things are performing or they're not. And if it's not performing, we have to make changes.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

My leadership style is to produce a fear of not changing..

I can change my mind and can learn other things. And anything I don't know, I'm capable of learning if I so desire or if it's necessary.

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Changing position comes naturally to me, to be honest.

It's possible to change.

I have always believed in reinventing myself and taking risks.

Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.

You need your employees to embrace change.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

The great thing about an attitude is that it's yours and you can change it.

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

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.