Core Competencies Quotes
Top 10 Core Competencies Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
The distinctive competence of an organization is more than what it can do; it is what it can do particularly
well.
- Kenneth Andrews , pictured right, The Concept of
Corporate Strategy (1971)
But Pythagorus (c.570-495 BC), the Greek philosopher and mathematician, pictured right,
warns:
Attempt nothing above your strength!
No 2
The three tests to identify core competencies from C.K.
Prahalad, pictured right, and Gary
Hamel, pictured right below, in The Core Competence of the Corporation (1990 Harvard Business Review
article):
A core competence provides potential access to a wide variety of markets
A core competence should make a significant contribution to the perceived customer benefits of the end
product.
A core competence should be difficult for competitors to imitate.
No 3
A distinctive capability becomes a competitive advantage when it is applied in an industry and brought to a
market.
- John Kay, pictured right, Foundations of Corporate
Success (1993)
No 4
In the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than
competitors, the core competencies that spawn unanticipated products.
- C.K. Prahalad ,pictured right, and
Gary Hamel , pictured right below,in
The Core Competence of the Corporation (1990 Harvard Business Review article)
No 5
Every organization needs one core competency: innovation.
- Peter Drucker (1909-2005), pictured right, American
management writer.
No 6
Core competencies are the glue that binds existing businesses, They are also the engine of new business
development.
- C.K. Prahalad and
Gary Hamel , pictured right, in The Core
Competence of the Corporation (1990 Harvard Business Review article)
No 7
The real tragedy in life is not that each of us doesn’t have enough strengths, it’s that we fail to use the ones
we have.
- Marcus Buckingham, pictured right above,
and Donald Clifton, pictured right below, in Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001)
No 8
To realize the potential that core competencies create, management needs the imagination to envision markets
that do not yet exist.
- Gary Hamel, pictured right above, and
C.K. Prahalad , pictured right below, in Corporate Imagination and Expeditionary Marketing (1991 Harvard Business Review
article).
No 9
An important element of the strategy of many successful firms has been the transformation of an initial
distinctive capability based on innovation or architecture to a more enduring one derived from reputation.
- John Kay, pictured right, in Foundations of Corporate
Success (1993)
No 10
They get their strengths together and make their weaknesses irrelevant [talking about great companies],
- Peter Drucker (1909-2005), American management writer,
pictured right.
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