If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.
It’s the internet like the flu – it just spreads like crazy.
Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
I don’t think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.
You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it’s wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.
If we don’t create private sector jobs and just – just creating public sector jobs, we’re going nowhere. This is a bad game. You’ve got to have innovation. You’ve got to have tax policies that support innovation.
If you get the best people on your team, you’ve got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.
Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.
The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
I believe that in any initiative, you can’t have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.
Most organizations fail in driving change.
Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we’ve had to lengthen.
In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that’s the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
The idea of let’s all share the pain equally, or let’s freeze salaries altogether – it’s ass-backwards. It’s absolutely ass-backwards.