The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.
The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.
Never confuse activity with results.
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.