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.
Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
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