An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.