Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

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

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

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.

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

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?

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.