The business of business is business.
Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think. ' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, Well, so-and-so will like this, which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.
Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.