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

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.