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

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.

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

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

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.