A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old