Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

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.

"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.

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.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.