Lisa Su Quotes

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

When a culture is broken, the cracks show - morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That's why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

I don't want a mercenary management team.

I don't think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.

If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

The Secret Service today is awash in managers, not leaders.