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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

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.

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

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

Pemimpin yang baik membuat orang merasa bahwa mereka berada di jantung berbagai hal, bukan di pinggiran. Setiap orang merasa bahwa dia membuat perbedaan untuk kesuksesan organisasi. Ketika itu terjadi, orang merasa terpusat dan itu memberi makna pada pekerjaan mereka.

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.

Kepemimpinan adalah penggunaan kekuasaan yang bijaksana. Kekuatan adalah kemampuan untuk menerjemahkan niat menjadi kenyataan dan mempertahankannya.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

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

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.