Michael Martin Hammer Quotes

#1. A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

Michael Martin Hammer

#2. Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

Alastair Humphreys

#3. I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights.

Junius Williams

#4. To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Michael Martin Hammer

#5. Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

Michael Martin Hammer

#6. Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Emily Oster

#7. Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

Jerry Coleman

#8. Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.

John Waters

#10. America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

Michael Martin Hammer

#11. Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Michael Martin Hammer

#12. On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

Pieter Zeeman

#13. Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

Michael Martin Hammer

#14. Heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business ... Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

Michael Martin Hammer

#15. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Alan Lightman

#16. Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

Frederick The Great

#17. We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere.

Albert Camus

#18. Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

Michael Martin Hammer

#19. The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

Michael Martin Hammer

#20. At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Gordon Parks

#21. Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

Michael Martin Hammer

#22. If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Michael Martin Hammer

#23. There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

Ric Ocasek