The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing . . . is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't; the things that once were productive and no longer are.

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