Book Titles

…effective executives do not splinter themselves. They concentrate on one task if at all possible.

Effective executives try to focus on jobs they’ll do especially well.

Even the most brilliant executive is human and thus prone to mistakes and prejudices.

Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds.

…every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

A written plan should anticipate the need for flexibility.

Time is an executive’s scarcest and most precious resource. And organizations… inherently time wasters.

In a well-managed enterprise, it is understood that people who fail in a new job, especially after a promotion, may not be the ones to blame.

Executives also owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. It needs to be taught explicitly to everyone in organizations that are based on knowledge.