What did Lou Gerstner mean by: You don’t get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks. - Lou Gerstner Business executive Copy
+ I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game; it is the game. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Aspect, Culture, Games, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
+ The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Involvement, Owners, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
+ Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 25, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Customer satisfaction, Improvement, Learning, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
+ The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Culture, Leadership, Powerful, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
+ I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Helping, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
+ I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Business, Running, Successful, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
+ I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Style, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
+ Never confuse activity with results. Feraz Zeid, June 13, 2023December 25, 2024, Lou Gerstner, Efficiency, Outcome, Productivity, 0 - Lou Gerstner Business executive
There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover; there’s no rain left in heaven. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
During a warm winter rain … the basins of her collarbones collected water. - Jeffrey Eugenides Author
People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own. - Jeffrey Gitomer Author
We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain. - Jennifer Granholm Politician · USA
The wind is not helpless for any man’s need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. - William Morris Designer · England
