Book Titles

A recurrent crisis should always have been foreseen.

In a lean organization people have room to move without colliding with one another and can do their work without having to explain it all the time.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization for one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Meetings… need to be purposefully directed.

The larger the organization, the more time will be needed just to keep the organization together and running, rather than to make it function and produce.

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.

The great majority of executives tend to focus downward. They are occupied with efforts rather than with results.

The man who focuses on efforts and who stresses his downward authority is a subordinate no matter how exalted his title and rank.

To ask, ‘What can I contribute?’ is to look for the unused potential in the job.

…what is considered excellent performance in a good many positions is often but a pale shadow of the job’s full potential of contribution.