The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

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.

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.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

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