Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

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

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.