Leadership is more doing than dash.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

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

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.