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"Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses."
"As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel."
"That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist."
"Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution."
"Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done."
"We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model ."
"Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen."
"The fault is in the system and not in the men."
"Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across.""
"An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction."
"If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource."
"The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains."
"Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese."
"Education can no longer be the sole property of the state."
"No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted."
"One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work."
"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."
"Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change"
"Decision making is the specific executive task."
"Do what you do best, and outsource the rest."