Tomorrow's economy will revolve around innovatively assembled brain power, not muscle power...Microsoft's only factory is the human imagination - Tom Peters
Today's individuals seek psychological self-determination. They are the origins of their own meanings, not a passive mass audience. They seek advocacy in place of adversarialism, relationships in place of transactions. They want to take their lives in their own hands and they are willing to pay for what we call the deep support that will enable them to do so. Think of a Russian doll. Business is inside capitalism, but capitalism is inside society, and society is inside history - Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin, The Support Economy, http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3138&sid=0&pid=0&t=leadership
The secret isn?t counting the beans, it's growing more beans - Roberto Goizeta, (1931-97) former CEO of Coca-Cola
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong - George Soros (b. 1930) U.S. financier, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Soros on Soros (1995)
The facts are that if you measure, what you measure is what you get. If you measure budget, you will get that behavior because people have learned over the years that you make your budget, you get a pat on the back. You miss it, you get a stick in the eye or worse. If you measure budget, that is what you get. Now if you measure performance against competition and performance against last year and the environment as your only measures, you will get different behavior. Now, you will get numbers, you will get people stretching, reaching and the whole conservation is energizing rather than enervating - Jack Welch
The best way for (middle) managers to stay in business is to become a business - Anon
Technology is the stuff invented after you were born - Alan Kay, Computing Pioneer
Our number one value --assume integrity is deep in the organisation-- our number one value was boundary-less behavior. That made you look for an idea anywhere - Jack Welch
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist - J.Paul Getty, (1892-1976) U.S. entrepreneur, oil industry executive, and financier. International Herald Tribune (January 10, 1961)
My management philosophy has been to hire a small, very good staff, pay them well, give them broad guidelines, support them, and turn them loose - Don Hubbard, Global Security Director at PwC