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?

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.

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

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.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.