One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

If you have more than five goals, you have none.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.