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.

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.

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

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.

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

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