In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.