Strategy Is A Pattern In A Stream

Technologies Tend To Undermine Community And Encourage Individualism.

While Hard Data May Inform The Intellect, It Is Largely Soft Data That Generates Wisdom.

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.

Basically, Managing Is About Influencing Action. Managing Is About Helping Organizations And Units To Get Things Done, Which Means Action. Sometimes, Managers Manage Actions Directly. They Fight Fires. They Manage Projects. They Negotiate Contracts.

Corporations Are Economic Entities, To Be Sure, But They Are Also Social Institutions That Must Justify Their Existence By Their Overall Contribution To Society.