Business Renewal Quotes

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.

I want to prove to people that every single business can be reinvented and fixed. And I want to prove to myself that I'm good at it.