Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.