You can never be comfortable with your success, youve got to be paranoid youre going to lose it. – Lou Gerstner
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing. – Lou Gerstner
You can never be comfortable with your success, youve got to be paranoid youre going to lose it. – Lou Gerstner
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing. – Lou Gerstner
Its about communication. Its about honesty. Its about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You dont try to give them half the story. You dont try to hide the story. You treat them as – as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate. – Lou Gerstner
This really is a merger of equals. I wouldnt have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves – technology and biscuits. – Lou Gerstner
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are What are you doing now? and How are you going to beat that? And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly – that youre in battle against yourself. – Elizabeth Gilbert
A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America