Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success.

Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

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