Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of “human resources”.
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don’t be surprised if you can’t relate what you see to those four words.
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions.