Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

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.