Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

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

Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.