Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the one...
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the br...
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.