In winning companies, everybody pulls in the same direction.
At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.
In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.
John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
The most essential thing in my government is that the ministers and heads of departments proceed in the same direction, think and act like myself.
The more you and the organization can help take care of personal situations, the smoother the ship runs on the football end.
What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.
