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

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

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

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.