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

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

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

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

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.