The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

One either meets or one works.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.