"Most discussions of decision making assume that..." - Quote by Peter Drucker

“The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.”

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.”

“Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.”

“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”

“We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.”

“I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.”

“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

“An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.”

“It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.”