No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same.

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.