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.

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

If you want to predict the future create it.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.