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.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

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.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.

The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

Any time I have any time off, I try to travel.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

Vision sees what could be.

A mother never fully delivers.

England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.