A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge..

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man unde….

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, t….

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say:….

Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full….

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for..

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality..

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the ….

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views.….

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday..

To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that ha….

No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive go….

Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company ex….

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready ….

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it..

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk..

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing..

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else..

There are no creeds in mathematics..

Leadership is defined by results not attributes..

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good..