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

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

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.

An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

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