“The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.”

“If you dont use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in fro...”

“There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.”

“The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.”

“Management is like sex - everyone thinks theyre good at it despite limited evidence.”

“Theres a fine line between child-like learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff and being child-ish.”

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, theyll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, theyll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Tha...”

“Dont worry, Im not quitting. Ive decided Im going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.--Kim to Abe”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”