Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?