Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse..

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point..

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it..

We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their ….

Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without the….

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he….

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities..

It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of b….

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty..

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes,….

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism..

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision wit….

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in fr….

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be….

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand econo….

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people..

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or wheth….

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social pro….

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing..