'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the...
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why'
Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.
Management works in the system
Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely.
We manage what we monitor.
If good management practice drives the failure of successful firms faced with disruptive technological change, then the usual answers to companies' problems—planning better, working harder, becoming...
Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values.
You can change only what people know, not what they do.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
