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

People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.