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

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

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

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.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

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

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.