What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers.
Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.
Someone, somewhere has a better idea.
In the end, your integrity is all you’ve got.
You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That’s what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
If you’ve got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.
What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.
If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by.
If you’re not in Germany, you’re not in Europe. And if you’re not in Asia, you’re nowhere.
Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.
GE’s businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.
The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE’s diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.
Don’t take a job because your mother wants you to. Don’t be a victim. You own your decision.
I don’t feel under-taxed in any way at all.
When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?
Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.
The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle – the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.
The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.