Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense.

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful in….

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of ha….

Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best..

The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is n….

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution….

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources"..

Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship..

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality..

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people..

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom..

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have..

The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and y….

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of cla….

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I th….

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details..

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it..

An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a v….

Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once man….