- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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