Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?.
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lac….
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done..
Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze..
The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires..
Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for th….
[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment..
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity..
Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordi….
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect..
The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees.
It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right..
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else..
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer..
There are no creeds in mathematics..
All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain ….
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example..
Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them..
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist..
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive..
The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them..