The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

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

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.