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
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
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept. – James Collins