Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource levera… - Gary Hamel

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes—while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.