Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products..
Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing do….
Our society has become an employee society..
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existen….
In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can….
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She there….
Leadership is all about getting results..
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste..
"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to….
The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive..
Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions..
As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel..
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all..
Profit is not a cause but a result-.
Decision making is the specific executive task..
To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient..
Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of thei….
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place..
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducati….
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise..
Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used u….