Lou Gerstner Thinking Quotations

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.

The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.

I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.