Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

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

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.