Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.