This Is All About Having Great Leaders

At Microsoft I Had Many Years Of Experience And History And Seeing Connections. With My Direct Reports, The Job At Microsoft Was To Delegate And Then Be Able To Properly Review, But Not To Micromanage. To Have A Way Of Connecting And Integrating Without Getting In The Way.

When You're Running A Company, You Have Employees - Lots Of Them - That Can Interrupt Your Schedule. You Have Customers That Can Interrupt Your Schedule. You Have A Certain Obligation To Wave The Flag Because People Expect To Get Out And Wave The Flag. The Number Of Ways That Others Can Command Your Time Is High. At This Stage, I Get To Pick And Choose A Little More. Not That There Aren't Some Things That Have To Be Done, But I Get A Little More Control Over My Time.

I Didn't Leave Business School To Go Bankrupt.

I Think These Things Social Networks Are Going To Have Some Legs,and Yet There's A Faddishness, A Faddish Nature About Anything That Basically Appeals To Younger People.

Baseball Is A Set Of Individuals Doing Their Thing In The Same Team, But It's Much More Individual. In Basketball People Are Making Real Time Decisions About Who Gets The Ball, Do We Trust Everybody Out On The Court, And The Analytics Certainly Don't Show You All Those Subtle Dynamics, But They're Very Important.