Education, on the other hand, leads not to technique but to information and knowledge, which in the right hands can lead to understanding, even to wisdom. Training makes people more alike, because everyone learns the same skills. Education, because it involves an examination of one's personal experience in the light of an encounter with great ideas, tends to make people different from each other. So the first benefit of education is that the manager becomes unique, independent, the genuine article. Amateur' stems from the Latin word amator, which means 'lover'.
Amateurs do what they do out of love.
That is a word that does not often arise in conversation about management development, yet love is fundamental to good leadership, because leadership is all about caring. Once the human organization gets to be large-scale, it is difficult to make it work as effectively as it did when it was smaller. That is the reason for the current move to more entrepreneurial organizations. There are those who feel that the future of organizations will be in a reversion to small units because, for one thing, only in smaller units are the bonds holding people together affectional rather than simply functional, and affection is the basis of community. Truly, relationships are the biggest 'x' factor determining the success and failure of your product, project, or company as a whole.