I want to take IBM back to its roots.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.
At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.
IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.
IBM has a very solid business image.