Lessons from Leaders

The MIT Leadership Center is proud to feature lessons, tips and guidance from frontline leaders — the men and women defining today's business world.

In written interviews and videotaped lectures, experts from a variety of fields share their experiences and offer views on what works. For example:

Don't pursue consensus over progress. — Marsh Carter, New York Stock Exchange

Stay focused on your primary mission. — Michael Kaiser, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Have respect for the long term. — Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Carlson Companies

Innovation should permeate a company. — Daniel Vasella, Novartis

Click on these and other leaders' names at right to learn the latest thinking shared through the MIT Leadership Center.