No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.