Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.