A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Our society has become an employee society.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop