But leadership is both rewarding and difficult, my most important lesson, I'll stop here take your question, my most important lesson about leadership came when I was a secretary, I sat, typed, answered the phones, by the way, the building that I sat...
But my point being that sometimes a leader's job is to undertake the difficult job of transformation and in this case it was a great company we're saving，but it is a tough, painful crisis for everyone involved, and I accepted that part of a transfo...
And if you doubt that think about the parable of Kodak and Hewlett Packard, Kodak was a company that in 1999 set on the huge pair of profit in the traditional photography business, that's in 5 years later, that business was drifting away, because a n...
Now one of things that I believe is that change not only requires an understanding of human nature, change also requires clear-eyed realism, change requires a deep understanding of what is wrong, so that means, for example, understanding all of issue...
But what I know about business in life is that there are many, many, many opportunities to lose your way, there are many opportunities to lose your way because you are overcame by greed. That's what the backdating stock option scandal's about. People...
And yet when people got into the role play I watch how quickly people dissolved into win-lose with obvious consequences. People are people wherever you find them and the number of advance degrees someone has... has nothing to do with whether or not t...
There are people who will hold their positions with honor there are people who will not. If you doubt that all you have to do is thinking about the current scandal with Backdating of Stock Options. Here you have people in some of the most prospected...
I took another really important course called gaming theory while I was here. Gaming theory to me was fascinating because, with all due respect to my very erudite teachers Jake Jacoby took that course. It's a great course, but to me what gaming theor...
I took, of course, operational research and learning about system's problems, is what helped me understand the systemic nature of transformation that was required at Hewlett Packard. When you learn about complex systems problems，you know that you c...
Now of course sure Sloanes, so you know it's also really important it's all about the numbers, absolutely; it's all about the technology without a doubt. But only people can build products and produce numbers. And so I decided to write that book. Now...
