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

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker