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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.