"I don't want to use the word reorganization.……" — Lou Gerstner
"I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes."
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Lou Gerstner
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52 Quotes by Lou Gerstner
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It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.
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Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over…
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For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions
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No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something…
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The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.
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I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies…
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Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end,…
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You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.
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You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can…
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In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
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The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're…
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs'…
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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a…
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I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters…
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in…
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car,…
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I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom…
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