The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important -and then get out their way while they do it. 678
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital -the world’s best talents and greatest ideas. 739
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moments is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEO can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerk are. They could name the jerks for you. It’s just cultural. People just don’t want to do it. 2.74K
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. 622
You’ve got 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 that. 805
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the person I hired. I was not the smarest guy in the room. And that’s the big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader -if you’re leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world -in the room, you’ve got real problems. 769
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. 1.24K
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand. 752
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. 700
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don’t have to work hard. 673
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. 663
Willingness to change is a strength, even if means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. 704
