Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
Interpretation
Business leaders must be discerning in choosing from the many learning opportunities available to them.
Warren Bennis emphasizes the importance of being cautious and insightful when navigating the abundant learning options available to business students and leaders. While the variety of choices can foster growth, it requires wisdom and strategic thinking to identify and leverage the most beneficial opportunities that will enhance one's skills and knowledge in a professional context.
In practice
During a conference on business education, this quote could inspire students to be selective in their learning paths.
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.
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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