In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

Gary Hamel
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  1. ... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46

  2. **New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there...

  3. Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist.... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f

  4. A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy

  5. Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

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