Tony Robbins Quotes

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

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

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago?

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

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.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

None of us are naïve enough to believe that moving around boxes on organization charts will change behavior. You have to change culture.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.

What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

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.

We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.

I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.

My goal is to change NXT. It is to change every company I've ever been to, and I've changed every company.

If you want to build a sustainable culture, you have to have a strong philosophy and then let people do with it what they will and be OK with that.

Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a lot of talk about... internal controls and this and that... so there's a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.

Persuading employees to let go of old values and beliefs and adopt new ones can be challenging.

Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.

It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like that.