The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

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

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

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

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.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.