Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Read Summary
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Read Summary
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. Read Summary
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. Read Summary
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. Read Summary
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. Read Summary
If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. Read Summary
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. Read Summary
Don't manage - lead change before you have to. Read Summary
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. Read Summary
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. Read Summary
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. Read Summary
The Internet is the Viagra of big business. Read Summary
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision. Read Summary
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. Read Summary
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it. Read Summary
Give me a highly successful unionized industry. Read Summary
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. Read Summary
I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all. Read Summary
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Read Summary