Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Your imagination will take you to places.

That’s not me.That’s my duality!

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.