Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice..
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all..
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests i….
There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions ..
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process..
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is….
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive….
Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do..
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs..
"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on t….
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making o….
The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the….
Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution..
If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble ….
Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will rem….
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal..
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs..
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things..
Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese..
A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it..
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity..