The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

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

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.