Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.