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" There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. "
Warren Bennis
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" There is a profound difference between information and meaning. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. "
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" Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. "
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" How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life? "
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" The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles. "
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" Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. "
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" Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. "
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" The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. "
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" 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. "
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" Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. "
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" A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column. "
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" 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. "
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" The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. "
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" Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. "
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" 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. "
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" You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future. "
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" 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. "
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" Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality. "
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" People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. "
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" Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. "
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" Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. "
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