A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

What's measured improves

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker