I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.