The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

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.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.