I'm A Great Believer In Particularly Being

You Have To Pretend You're 100 Percent Sure. You Have To Take Action; You Can't Hesitate Or Hedge Your Bets. Anything Less Will Condemn Your Efforts To Failure.

There's A Tendency At The Senior And Middle-manager Level To Be Too Big-picturish And Too Superficial. There Is A Phrase, "the Devil Is In The Details." One Can Formulate Brilliant Global Strategies Whose Executability Is Zero. It's Only Through Familiarity With Details - The Capability Of The Individuals Who Have To Execute, The Marketplace, The Timing - That A Good Strategy Emerges. I Like To Work From Details To Big Pictures.

There Is At Least One Point In The History Of Any Company When You Have To Change Dramatically To Rise To The Next Level Of Performance. Miss That Moment - And You Start To Decline.

You Have No Choice But To Operate In A World Shaped By Globalization And The Information Revolution. There Are Two Options: Adapt Or Die.

The Boom Was Healthy Too, Even With Its Excesses. Because What This Incredible Valuation Craze Did Was Draw Untold Sums Of Billions Of Dollars Into Building The Internet Infrastructure. The Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars That Got Invested In Telecommunications, For Example.