Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.

If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.