Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.