Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.