Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

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

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.

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

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.