Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

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.

If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly.

Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

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.

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.