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• It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.
• Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over there. What's…
• For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions
• No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to…
• The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.
• I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
• If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the…
• Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t…
• You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.
• You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives.…
• In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
• The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking.…

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