Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions