Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.