Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.