Gary Hamel
United States
Born on 1954
Management Expert
Born on 1954
Management Expert
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Creative strategies seldom emerge from the annual planning ritual. The starting point for next year's strategy is almost always this year's strategy... the company sticks to what it knows, even though the real opportunities may be elsewhere.
Although strategic planning is billed as a way of becoming more future oriented, most managers... will admit that their strategic plans reveal more about today's problems than tomorrow's opportunities.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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