Morale in an organization does not mean that 'people get along together'; the test is performance not conformance. -- The Effective Executive (1966)

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is …

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their ow…

[human types needed for top management tasks] ...the 'thought man' ...the 'action man' ...the 'people man' ...the 'front man' ...Yet those four temperaments ar…

An organization is 'sick' -- when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job -- when it is more concerned with avoiding mi…

My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino, my co-star, about how nerv…

When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, 'Southern California's special horror notwithstanding, if the world offered nothing, nowhere t…