Denise Morrison Quotes

Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.

The basic DNA we've got to implant in leaders now is adaptability: not to get wedded to the solution to a particular problem, because not only the problem but the solution changes day to day. Creating people who are hardwired for that is going to be our challenge for the future.

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

It's important for anyone working at a hyper growth company such as Airbnb to embrace learning and be open in order to keep pace with the changing environment.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Be big, fast and flexible.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

Change before you're forced to change.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

I'm a person who likes to tackle challenges. Google was a challenge when I got there. I think AOL's a challenge. The way we run the company is a very team-focused environment.

When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

My leadership style is to produce a fear of not changing..

You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

The countries that succeed will be those that are nimble and able to use their human capital to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.