The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

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

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

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

Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.

If you want to predict the future create it.