Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge so….
The real achiever do one thing at a time..
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership..
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective..
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well..
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic..
What gets measured gets managed..
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United ….
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour..
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous..
Leadership is an achievement of trust..
The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow..
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for ….
The bеѕt wау tо predict уоur future іѕ tо create it..
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge worker….
One either meets or one works..
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the….
Leadership is more doing than dash..
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege..
One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time..