During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

Leadership is all about getting results.

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.

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

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.