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.
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Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling "To rescue the fallen is good, but tis best To prevent other people from falling" Better close up the source of temptation and crime Than deliver from dungeon or gallery Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff Than an ambulance down in the valley.
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
To be scientifically literate is _x000D_ to empower yourself to _x000D_ know when someone else is _x000D_ full of bullshit.
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
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