Organizations Are Communities Of Human Beings, Not

We Have Great Managers Who Havent Spent A Day In Management School. Do We Have Great Surgeons That Havent Spent A Day In Surgical School?

Strategy Is Not The Consequence Of Planning, But The Opposite: Its Starting Point.

You Can Teach All Sorts Of Things That Improve The Practice Of Management With People Who Are Managers. What You Cannot Do Is Teach Management To Somebody Who Is Not A Manager, The Way You Cannot Teach Surgery To Somebody Whose Not A Surgeon.

Organizations Should Be Built And Managers Should Be Functioning So People Can Be Naturally Empowered. If Someone's Doing Their Job, If Someone's Working In One Of Your Warehouses, Say, They Should Know Their Job Better Than Anybody. They Don't Need To Be 'empowered,' But Encouraged And Left Alone To Be Able To Do What They Know Best.

Effective Managing Therefore Happens Where Art , Craft, And Science Meet. But In A Classroom Of Students Without Managerial Experience, These Have No Place To Meet There Is Nothing To Do.