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

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

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're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

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

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

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