Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

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.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.