"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.