Warren Bennis

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

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.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

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.

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.