Successful innovators are..not risk-focused; they are opportunity focused. - Peter Drucker

…control has to be by feedback from the work done. The work itself has to provide the information. If it has to be checked all the time, there is no control

The subject of this book is managing oneself for effectiveness.

tonsils or half the appendix risks as much infection or shock as if he did the whole job. And he has not cured the condition, has indeed made it worse. He either operates or he doesn’t. Similarly, the effective decision-maker either acts or he doesn’t act. He does not take half-action. This is the one thing that is always wrong, and the one sure way not to satisfy the minimum specifications, the minimum boundary conditions.