No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.

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

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. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.