Quote by Lou Gerstner
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing. – Lou Gerstner

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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

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Technology
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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

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communication
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You can never be comfortable with your success, youve got to be paranoid youre going to lose it. – Lou Gerstner

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers. – James Humes

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Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred. – Proverb

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The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming – all these are very clearly tied to energy. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Im floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians. – Haley Barbour

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The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. – Sargent Shriver

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. – Bill Cosby

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