An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.