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Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

Lou Gerstner
Culture, Fixing, Management

You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

Lou Gerstner
Reality, Goal, Culture

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

Lou Gerstner
Games, Culture, Aspect
"Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?". Book by Lou Gerstner, 2002.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

Lou Gerstner
Leadership, Powerful, Culture

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

Lou Gerstner
Excellence, Culture, I Have Learned

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