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.

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

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.

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.

Good business should contain something for both parties.

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.