Book Titles

Whoever tries to place a man or staff an organization to avoid weakness will end up at best with mediocrity.

Strong people always have strong weaknesses too. Where there are peaks, there are valleys.

…no executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Human excellence can only be achieved in one area, or at the most in very few.

To staff from what there is not and to focus on weakness is wasteful—a misuse, if not abuse, of the human resource.

Jobs have to be objective; that is, determined by task rather than by personality.

Jobs in an organization are interdependent and interlocked.

Achievement must be measured against objective criteria of contribution and performance.

…the test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance.

That so few executives use the official appraisal is thus hardly surprising. It is the wrong tool, in the wrong situation, for the wrong purpose.