Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans..

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them..

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see ….

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths..

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are….

You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training,….

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every ca….

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility..

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….

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn..

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge….

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event histori….

The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow..

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could….

Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on a….

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question..

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission..

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations..

Our society has become an employee 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….

Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he design….