"If the practices and processes inside a company……" — Lou Gerstner
"If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?"
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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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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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