Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

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.