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

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

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

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.

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

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.

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?