No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop