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

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

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

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.

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

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.

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