Quotes

The Effective Executive, Page 2171

…the effective executive will slough off an old activity before he starts on a new one.

The Effective Executive, Page 2173

Social organizations need to stay lean and muscular as much as biological organisms.

The Effective Executive, Page 2174

…as every executive has learned, nothing new is easy. It always gets into trouble.

The Effective Executive, Page 2188

…few organizations ever get going on their own good ideas.

The Effective Executive, Page 2220

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons.

The Effective Executive, Page 2253

…studies of research scientists have shown that achievement depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

The Effective Executive, Page 2277

Effective executives do not make a great many decisions. They concentrate on the important ones.

The Effective Executive, Page 2425

The generic always has to be answered through a rule, a principle.

The Effective Executive, Page 2541

A decision, to be effective, needs to satisfy the boundary conditions. It needs to be adequate to its purpose.

The Effective Executive, Page 2594

The trouble with miracles is not, after all, that they happen rarely; it is that one cannot rely on them.