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

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

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

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

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.