Strategy Is A Pattern In A Stream

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.

Five Coordinating Mechanisms Seem To Explain The Fundamental Ways In Which Organizations Coordinate Their Work: Mutual Adjustment, Direct Supervision, Standardization Of Work Processes, Standardization Of Work Outputs, And Standardization Of Worker Skills.

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

While Hard Data May Inform The Intellect, It Is Largely Soft Data That Generates Wisdom.

No Job Is More Vital To Our Society Than That Of The Manager. It Is The Manager Who Determines Whether Our Social Institutions Serve Us Well Or Whether They Squander Our Talents And Resources.