An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

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

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.

One either meets or one works.

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.