I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.

Live with passion. Live with purpose.

If the only common thread you have as an industrial company is the fact that you think you're well managed, you can still be a pretty good company, but you're not going to be a dominant company, a competitive company over time.

And people is the most important part of my job. I spend one third of my time on people.

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.