Everyone Is Against Micro Managing But Macro

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.

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.

Strategy Is A Pattern In A Stream Of Decisions

An Obsession With Control Generally Seems To Reflect A Fear Of Uncertainty.

Anecdotal Data Is Not Incidental To Theory Development At All, But An Essential Part Of It.