As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

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

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.