DeansTalk - business management education

Jack Welch spreads business gospel

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - "Don't fall in love with your workers,"  October 16th. Copyright Associated Press.

Furthermore, there is a link in the article to "Classroom quotations from Jack Welch".

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Chinese Proverb

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are
planning for a lifetime, educate people.

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Training

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain.

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The Passion for Education

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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Perennial values of education

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)

"University should be a place of light, of knowledge and of liberty"

(Speech, House of Commons, March 11th, 1873)

"Upon education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends"

(Ib., House of Commons, June 15th, 1874)

What an excellent quote!

Della Bradshaw, The Financial Times Business Education editor.

What an excellent quote! Darwin, as many people may know, was a Cambridge man. In the Financial Times on Monday January 30 there will be an excellent article from Sandra Dawson, dean of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, explaining why she believes managers and business schools alike can learn much from the work of Charles Darwin.

Business and adaptation?

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

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Genius and Work

An Homage to W.A.Mozart on the 250 Anniversary of His Birth

People make a mistake who think my art has come easily to me. Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not studied over and over."

(attributed to W.A. Mozart)

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Not Bosses but Leaders

You can be appointed a manager, but you are not a leader until your appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of those who work with you".

John Adair, from his book "Not Bosses but Leaders", 1987.

(Does this still apply in 2006; or did it ever apply?)

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