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.

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 difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

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.

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

Cash in must exceed cash out.

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.