The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Whats measured improves.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isnt said.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Time must be managed, not the people.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.
Strategies are not practices; they are decisions.
In every success story, you will find someone who has made courageous decisions.
Business has only two functions marketing and innovation.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
The best way to manage change is to create it.
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
There is nothing more useless than doing a job efficiently that should not be done at all.
To be effective, executives must be willing to be uncomfortable.
Every decision is the result of a choice made.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
People in any organization are always making sense of what is going on.
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
What we need is not the best people, but the right people.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution.
The most important thing is to find your passion.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them.
Employees are a companys greatest asset.
A successful business is built on relationships.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Knowledge workers require different management approaches.
The best solutions often emerge from the most difficult problems.
Work must be organized, but workers must be empowered.
Only people can produce results.
The core of management is empowering others.
Leadership is not about the next election, its about the next generation.
The future is already here its just not very evenly distributed.
Success is not about the position you hold, but the influence you have.
Organizations that go beyond business will prevail.
The foundation of any great achievement is great thinking.
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over.