Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.