To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.