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.
For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions
IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.
I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.
The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.
The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.