“If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.” IfsYearsBelieveI BelieveMillionsCasesPerformancesDollarsDrivenArguingBillionsCeoSalaryCompensationShareholdersIbm Author:Lou Gerstner
“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.” PeopleImportantEndsValuesCultureGamesBusinessVisionElementsCapacityAspectOrganizationStrategyEntrepreneurMarketingCorporationsMy TimeJust OneCollectivesMakeupCeoIbm Author:Lou Gerstner
“The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.” WorldFirstsLevelsTechnologyIssuesInformationIndustryPromiseOffersFirst TimeDecadesAddressesCeoInformation Technology Author:Lou Gerstner
“The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.” ThinkingWorldGivingWritingLittlesCompanySpeechLettersVideoReportsEmployeeCeoAnnualsMemosAnnual Reports Author:Lou Gerstner
