What We Believe Is Going

I Don't Want To Use The Word Reorganization. Reorganization To Me Is Shuffling Boxes, Moving Boxes Around. Transformation Means That You're Really Fundamentally Changing The Way The Organization Thinks, The Way It Responds, The Way It Leads. It's A Lot More Than Just Playing With Boxes.

You Don't Get Points For Predicting Rain. You Get Points For Building Arks.

If Ceo Compensation Was Performance-driven, Which I Believe It Was In Ibm's Case, Nobody Would Ever Argue. If The Shareholders Didn't Make Billions And Billions Of Dollars, I Wouldn't Make Millions Of Dollars. My Salary Was The Same For 10 Years. It Was All Performance-based.

Quite Frankly, I Am Not Very Comfortable In Chitchat. When I Go To Board Meetings, I Arrive Two Minutes Before And Leave When It's Over. I Don't Stay For Lunch Or Go Early And Have Coffee.

The Networked World Offers The Promise That Maybe The Information Technology Industry Will Start To, For The First Time In A Decade Or So, Address Ceo-level Issues.