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Gary Hamel

出生: November 09, 1954 – St. Joseph, Michigan, United States

Gary Hamel is an influential management thinker and author specializing in business strategy, innovation, and organizational change. His notable works include "Competing for the Future," "Leading the Revolution," "The Future of Management," and "Humanocracy," with landmark concepts such as core competence and strategic intent. Hamel's books have been translated into over 25 languages, profoundly shaping modern management practices worldwide.

传记与作者历程

Gary Hamel, born in St. Joseph, Michigan in 1954, stands as one of the world’s most influential business thinkers whose work has profoundly shaped management theory and practice. After graduating from Andrews University in 1975, Hamel went on to earn his Ph.D. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1990. His early fascination with organizational vitality was fueled by watching the auto industry in his native Michigan struggle against nimble global competitors—a formative experience that triggered his lifelong commitment to innovation and transformation in management.

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名言

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A successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own
-Leading the Revolution
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There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful
-What Matters Now
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If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble
-Competing for the Future
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There’s no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again
-Competing for the Future
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To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox
-Competing for the Future
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The most important question for any organization is this: Are we changing as fast as the world around us? For most organizations, the answer is no
-Humanocracy
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Initiative, creativity, and valor can’t be commanded
-Humanocracy
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Bureaucracies are innovation-phobic. New ideas are inherently suspect. That’s why game-changing innovation usually comes from industry outsiders like OpenAI, SpaceX and Anduril
-Humanocracy
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Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth
-Competing for the Future
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We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns
-What Matters Now

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"Gary Hamel has been called "the world's leading expert on business strategy" by Fortune magazine"

Fortune

"Gary Hamel is the originator, with C.K. Prahalad, of the concept of core competencies, a foundational idea in management theory"

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"Gary Hamel is a visiting professor of strategic management at London Business School, where he has taught for three decades"

London Business School

"The Wall Street Journal ranked Gary Hamel as one of the world's most influential business thinkers"

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"According to Forbes, Gary Hamel ranked number 5 among the 10 most influential business gurus in 2007"

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"The Financial Times referred to Gary Hamel as a "management innovator without peer."

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"Harvard Business Review has published 20 articles by Gary Hamel and has described him as a leading authority on strategy and innovation"

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