One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.