I Get Energy From One-on-one Conversations Most

I Wish To Be Focused On Kind Of The Business Stuff I'm Doing, How Do I Contribute To Our Economic Progress, How Do I Help Create A Future For American Industry, American Middle Class, These Kind Of Things. Those Things Actually Really Matter To Me.

Managing Risk Is A Key Variable, Frankly, All Aspects Of Life, Business Is Just One Of Them, And One Of The Things That Most People Do In Terms Of Managing Risk, That's Actually Bad Thinking, Is They Think They Can Manage Risk To Zero. Everything Has Some Risk To It. You Know, You Drive Your Car Down The Street, A Drunk Driver May Hit You. So What You're Doing Is You're Actually Trying To Get To An Acceptable Level Of Risk.

Success...is No Longer A Simple Ascension Of Steps. You Need To Climb Sideways And Sometimes Down, And Sometimes You Need To Swing From The Jungle Gym And Establish Your Own Turf Somewhere Else On The Playground.

The Ceo's Job Is Always About Leadership. It's About Leadership In A Vision, In Terms Of Where You're Going, It's About Making Sure That You Have The Right Organization And Staff, And That You Have Kind Of Clearly Communicated What Some Of The Plays Are And What Some Of The Goals Are In Terms Of The Business And How Do You Organize Together In Order To Make That Happen.

Social Networks Do Best When They Tap Into One Of The Seven Deadly Sins. Facebook Is Ego. Zynga Is Sloth. Linkedin Is Greed.