Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?