Just having a great Web site is only one step in a company thinking of itself as an Internet company. You also have to change all the processes inside your company to be digital. The people at the desk...the knowledge workers, need to work in a different way.
I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
I will build a motor car for the great multitude...constructed of the best materials... so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one.
The task of the conscience activities is not to help the organization improve on its present activities. Its task is to hold the organization to its own standards, to remind the organization what it should be, but isn't, doing.
Organizations that are change leaders are designed for change. But people need continuity...they do not function well if the environment is not predictable, not understandable, not known.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human