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?

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

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

The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

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

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