My Beliefs About Business and Management

The single greatest problem in business - and one of the biggest problems in life - today is that people so often fail to do what they say that they are going to do, when they say they are going to do it. If people simply said "yes" when they meant "yes", and "no" when they meant "no", and adhered to their asserted positions and plans, the world would be forever changed, and for the better. The truth is the single rarest commodity on the face of the earth, and for that reason, it is precious and worth pursuing.

Beyond that, I'd like to share some slides I used while I was at Boeing, mentoring people who were just entering the ranks of management:

That pretty well sums it up from my perspective. Of course, I explain each of the points in each of the slides when I am presenting - but I think the reader can understand most of these selected points.