What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

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.

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

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

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

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

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