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.

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

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

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.

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?

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