Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself..

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for th….

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't..

For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit..

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable..

The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 perce….

Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting ….

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time..

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing a….

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducati….

The next thing to be said about what long-range planning is not, is that it does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the futurity of presen….

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better..

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge..

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer..

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago..

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor..

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only th….

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity..

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordi….

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast..

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive..