Education can no longer be the sole property of the state..

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions..

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs..

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….

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel..

"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 computer is a moron..

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, so….

"The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on t….

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….

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationshi….

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….

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it..

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process..

Decisions exist only in the present..

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used u….

I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is….

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do..

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never ….

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performa….

There is a point at which a transformation has to take place..