In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.