Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
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….
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever..
Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader….
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time..
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that ne….
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question..
To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you k….
Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does..
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year..
Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathi….
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively..
The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant..
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill..
Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure..
Strong people have strong weaknesses..
Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength..
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective..
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of w….
Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance..
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined..