Marvin Bower

"In large-scale organizations, the factual approach must be constantly nurtured by high-level executives. The more layers of authority through which facts must pass before they reach the decision maker…"

"Fourteen basic and well-known managing processes make up the components from which a management system for any business can be fashioned."

"People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills."

"A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence."

"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered — what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making."

"The business with high ethical standards has three primary advantages over competitors whose standards are lower:"

"A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge."

"I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And t…"