Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittent….
Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced..
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobil….
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:….
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantific….
Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon..
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of….
Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable..
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again..
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise..
If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it..
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe..
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!.
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion..
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast..
If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will ….
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done..
Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable..
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….
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao..
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge….