Corporations Are Economic Entities, To Be Sure,

No Generalizing Beyond The Data, No Theory. No Theory, No Insight. And If No Insight, Why Do Research.

The Great Myth Is The Manager As Orchestra Conductor. It's This Idea Of Standing On A Pedestal And You Wave Your Baton And Accounting Comes In, And You Wave It Somewhere Else And Marketing Chimes In With Accounting, And They All Sound Very Glorious. But Management Is More Like Orchestra Conducting During Rehearsals, When Everything Is Going Wrong.

You Can Teach All Sorts Of Things That Improve The Practice Of Management With People Who Are Managers. What You Cannot Do Is Teach Management To Somebody Who Is Not A Manager, The Way You Cannot Teach Surgery To Somebody Whose Not A Surgeon.

Organizational Effectiveness Does Not Lie In That Narrow Minded Concept Called Rationality. It Lies In The Blend Of Clearheaded Logic And Powerful Intuition

Strategies Grow Initially Like Weeds In A Garden, They Are Not Cultivated Like Tomatoes In A Hothouse.