Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

If people are coming to work excited...if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly...if they're having fun...if they're concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings...then somewhere you have a leader.