The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.