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

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.

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.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

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

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.