# Quote — Gary Hamel, Leading the Revolution

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

- Author: [Gary Hamel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gary-hamel.md)
- Book: [Leading the Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gary-hamel/leading-the-revolution.md)
- Page: 25
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gary_Hamel#Leading_the_Revolution,_2002) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gary-hamel/leading-the-revolution/resilience-is-based

## More from this book

> All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

p. 46 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gary-hamel/leading-the-revolution/all-too-often.md)

> New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight... 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 has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision.

p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gary-hamel/leading-the-revolution/new-business-concepts.md)