Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

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

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

It is important to make the best out of every generation.

I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

What's good in the hood?