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“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.”

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Gary Hamel, born on January 1, 1954, is an outstanding management scholar and strategic consultant. He has extensive research and practical experience in the fields of corporate strategy and innovation. Hamel is renowned for his unique insights into strategic thinking and leadership, and his writings and consulting work have had a profound impact on global corporate management. more

“The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).”

Mean Has Beens Dream Next Left Given Understanding Sides Change Stage Fashion Fronts Development Understood Europe Seasons Dear Designer Hegel

Author:Milan Kundera

“I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.”

Long Has Beens Change Impossible Crime Source Long Time Misery Accepted Assumption Prevailing

Author:John Ruskin

“They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.”

Men Love Change Hardest Cycles Hearted

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.”

World Whole Earth Heaven Change Subjects Whole World Peril Mutation

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

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