If you want to predict the future create it.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

One either meets or one works.