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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Today, businesses are in permanent crisis mode. Henry Mintzberg, Professor, McGill University. ? I have commitment. It gives you the ability to love, learn and lose it! We need a story that moves us and a space that holds us. Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD. ? Constantijn Van Oranje, Special Envoy Startup Delta. ? I have dreams.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

In A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment , I contrasted two leaders, Denise and Joel. They’re creating an energy crisis. Don’t allow yourself and your management team to be hijacked by the tiny minority of people who will never be committed, passionate, or trustworthy.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.” It’s a non-renewable energy crisis. Living on Purpose.

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Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

Harvard Business Review

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? Leading scholars, best-selling authors, deans.