Quotes

Management, Page 525

In knowledge work, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.

The Effective Executive, Page 525

…insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

The Effective Executive, Page 533

…effectiveness is the specific technology of the knowledge worker within an organization.

The Effective Executive, Page 563

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

The Effective Executive, Page 564

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped.

The Effective Executive, Page 575

The knowledge worker does not produce something that is effective by itself… He produces knowledge, ideas, information.

The Effective Executive, Page 576

The greatest wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

The Effective Executive, Page 584

…education is the most expensive capital investment we have ever known.

The Effective Executive, Page 616

Knowledge work is not defined by quantity. Neither is knowledge work defined by its costs. Knowledge work is defined by its results.

The Effective Executive, Page 640

…the authority of knowledge is surely as legitimate as the authority of position.