But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

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

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.