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    Everyone thinks I'm a smart arse who can solve any bloody problem. I'm not. I'm just a very old businessman and a very experienced businessman who made every mistake in the book and can recognise one when I see one.

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    Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.

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    Good business should contain something for both parties.

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    How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

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    If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

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    In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

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    It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

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    It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

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    It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

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    People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

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    People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

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    Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

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    Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

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    The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

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    There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

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    The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.