Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

Make every decision as if you owned the company.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.