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Size is only an advantage if it gives you options. When size becomes bureaucracy, it becomes a liability.
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Running a great company is about 70% leadership and 30% strategy. Get the people wrong and strategy doesn't matter.
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Every leader gets tested. 9/11 was my test on day four. I learned more in that first week than in the previous decade.
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The industrial internet is real. The companies that figure out the software layer on top of their hardware will win the next century.
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I made mistakes. Big ones. Running a company for 16 years means you will. The question is whether you learn faster than the damage compounds.
accountabilityfailure— Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company (memoir), 2021, 2021