"Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out."
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Courage
"Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success — along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value."
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Leadership
"If I need to remind myself to bring something with me in the morning, I’ll usually put my car keys on top of it."
- Des Traynor
Organization
"You cannot run a successful retail business from memory."
- Josh Hartford
Organization
"I try to prep a lot of things in advance and be organized, whether that's meals, school runs, homework plans, plenty of GCSE revision."
- Tess Daly
Organization
"Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."
- A. A. Milne
Organization
"This is some rescue. You came in here and you didn't have a plan for getting out?"
- Princess Leia
Organization