Corporate Change Quotes

Unless you are building a new company from the ground up and can install caring as your businesses' cornerstone, you have to be willing to embark on a completely cultural overhaul so that, like a local mom and pop shop, every employee is comfortable engaging in customer service, and does it authentically.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.

We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

On Sept. 12, 2016, there was a momentary realignment in the constellation of global business. For the first time, the five largest public corporations in the world by market capitalization were all technology companies: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Facebook.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.

I wish the company and its associates all the best as Sears Holdings continues on its transformation.

The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.

When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.

In the UFC, at first we were like a family, but then it turned corporate. In Bellator, we're family.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

I do think that impact investing is not that effective. Shares go from investor A to investor B, and the company doesn't even know it. It's inevitably an ineffective way to communicate to the company your feelings.

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.

Companies can change. Culture can change.

Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that this transformation will have on wider society.

Deciding whether or not to bring in an outside CEO is one of the most gut-wrenching decisions that a founder will ever need to make.