The Thing I Have Learned At Ibm

Lou Gerstner Knows How To Do A Deal, And George Bush Sr., Less So.

Every Now And Then, A Technology Comes Along That Is So Profound, So Powerful, So Universal, That Its Impact Will Change Everything. It Will Transform Every Institution In The World. It Will Create Winners And Losers, Will Change The Way We Do Business, The Way We Teach Our Children, Communicate And Interact As Individuals.

We Do Not Need Departments Of Commerce, Labor, And Education; We Need A Single Department Of Skills That Will Promote An Integrated Approach To Global Competitiveness.

The More Successful Enterprises Are The More They Try To Replicate, Duplicate, Codify What Makes Us Great. And Suddenly They're Inward Thinking. They're Thinking How Can We Continue To Do What We've Done In The Past Without Understanding That What Made Them Successful Is To Take Risks, To Change And To Adapt And To Be Responsive. And So In A Sense Success Breeds Its Own Failure. And I Think It's True Of A Lot Of Successful Businesses.

The Next Thing Is: We Can Make Ibm Even Better. We Brought Ibm Back But We're Gunning For Leadership.