Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

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