Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'p...
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
The computer is a moron.
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rat...
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
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