Leadership, Like Swimming, Cannot Be Learned By

The Great Myth Is The Manager As Orchestra Conductor. It's This Idea Of Standing On A Pedestal And You Wave Your Baton And Accounting Comes In, And You Wave It Somewhere Else And Marketing Chimes In With Accounting, And They All Sound Very Glorious. But Management Is More Like Orchestra Conducting During Rehearsals, When Everything Is Going Wrong.

No Generalizing Beyond The Data, No Theory. No Theory, No Insight. And If No Insight, Why Do Research.

Strategy Is A Pattern In A Stream Of Decisions

Organizational Effectiveness Does Not Lie In That Narrow Minded Concept Called Rationality. It Lies In The Blend Of Clearheaded Logic And Powerful Intuition

An Obsession With Control Generally Seems To Reflect A Fear Of Uncertainty.