Strategy is about making choices. Execution is about making those choices work.

 

I'd been through enough change to know that good can always come out of it, so I could see the opportunity and the possibilities. My colleagues were unaccustomed to change. It seemed too difficult, and they wanted to hang on to their familiar patterns.

 

Managers control resources, but people follow leaders.

 

Leaders are candid and courageous.

 

A leader's job is to sense, ahead of others, danger as well as opportunity and to lead the organization to adapt itself to both. Over time the organization would toughen and mature.

 

What will it mean when people all over the world have access to any information on any device at any time?!

 

Life isn't always fair, and I was playing in the big leagues. Yet I realized I had no regrets. I had completed my mandate. I had made mistakes, but I had made a difference.