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.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

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

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.