If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees