Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

What's measured improves

Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.