- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't let others define you. You define yourself.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growth and comfort do not coexist.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be first and be lonely.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.
- Big Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make time to exercise. It's not being indulgent. I think it's got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There's no doubt about that.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.
- Products
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody's just B2B or B2C anymore. You are B2I - business to individual.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very practical.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom had not worked a day in her life, and then she woke up when I was 15 and found herself with four children, no job, no money. But she set out and made it all OK for us, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn't just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020