People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Some suggestions for you :

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

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

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

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

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.

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

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.