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Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."
The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.
Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.
Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.
Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.
The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.
I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.
In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.
Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.