Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

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

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.