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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.