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

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

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

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

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