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- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make fun of people. I call people by what they want to be called. What does your best friend call you? What does your spouse call you? It helps you emotionally connect to people.
- Business Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an issue with dyslexia before they understood what dyslexia was. One of my teachers, Mrs. Anderson, taught me to look at it like a curveball. The ball breaks the same way every time. Once you get used to it, you can handle it pretty well.
- Overcoming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned another lesson from Jack Welch. It was in 1998, and at that time, we were one of the most valuable companies in the world. I said, 'Jack, what does it take to have a great company?' And he said, 'It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mistakes are always around moving too slow or moving too fast without process behind it. And it's something that, if we're not careful, we'll repeat again and again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's connectivity that really makes the industrial Internet work: it's giving the right information at the right time to the right person or right machine to make the right decision.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.
- CEO
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'No.1 IT company' isn't by volume, it's in relation to business customers because those are my customers, not the consumer. Who do they view as their most important partner? That's my definition of the 'No.1 IT company.'
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
What NDS did is allow us to move into video capability with large service providers or cable providers - and the ability to do this out of the cloud. And that allows you to do it faster.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The No. 1 country in the world to do business in is which one? To locate where you want to create jobs, where you want to have a great market? It's Canada. Even in Russia, you can build a Silicon Valley outside of Moscow.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We changed the world many ways with the Internet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win.
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're going to acquire, what are we going to do differently? We came up with six rules of thumb. Whenever I've violated two of them, I usually get into trouble.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you have the same vision of where industry is going as the target of your acquisition? If visions differ, you might get together economically for a while, but then you are going to have problems.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020