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

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

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

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.

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