The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their characters. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.

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Successful executives are great askers.

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An overburdened, stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

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To be vital, an organization has to repot itself, start again, get new ideas, renew itself. And I... should disappear from the company so my successor feels totally free.

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I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

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Effective executives fill positions and promote on the basis of what a person can do. They do not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength.

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Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views... The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

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Few top executives can even imagine the hatred, contempt, and fury that has been created�not primarily among blue-collar workers who never had an exalted opinion of the �bosses� - but among their middle management and professional people.

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The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail.

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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