Book Titles

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

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

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

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

To go and look for oneself is also the best, if not the only, way to test whether the assumptions on which a decision had been made are still valid or whether they are becoming obsolete and need to be thought through again.

…one always has to expect the assumptions to become obsolete sooner or later. Reality never stands still very long.

The effective decision-maker assumes that the traditional measurement is not the right measurement.

The traditional measurement reflects yesterday’s decision.

Finding the appropriate measurement is thus not a mathematical exercise. It is a risk-taking judgment.

Unless one has considered alternatives, one has a closed mind.