Categories

Predicting whether an executive can scale corrupts your ability to manage, is unfair, and doesn’t work.

The perpetuation of a business is a central entrepreneurial task – and ability to do so may well be the most definitive test of a management.

…increasingly the ability of organizations – and not only of businesses – to survive will come to depend on their comparative advantage in making the knowledge worker productive.

The demand for executives is steadily growing. A developed society increasingly replaces manual skill with theoretical knowledge and the ability to organize and to lead – in short, with managerial ability.

…if new information technology is abused to impose control on managers from above, it will inflict incalculable harm by demoralizing management and by seriously lowering the effectiveness of managers.

Performance is… the consistent ability to produce results over prolonged periods of time and in a variety of assignments.

Prosperity rises as people become more capable of absorbing new ideas and filtering out old ones.

Cognitive skills that amplify our ability to take in and understand information lay the groundwork for becoming a sponge. As we become more spongelike, we become better equipped to achieve greater things.

We’re more confident in our ability to surmount struggles after guiding others through them.

Unlocking the hidden potential in groups requires leadership practices, team processes, and systems that harness the capabilities and contributions of all their members.