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.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

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

We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

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

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.