Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the ….
If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change a….
If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development..
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could….
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people..
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility..
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?.
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago..
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation..
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'.
In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge.
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever..
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training,….
The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest out….
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence..
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different..
Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge….
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the o….
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society..
In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unri….
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dan….