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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q buy the delicatessen they were working at. So I'm just kind of curious, like, what do you think made you take that, that extra step? Was it something about being in control of, of your future and your destiny? That was something that, that made you want to go ahead and do it. I mean, You know, it is a very unusual step to do. So what was behind that?
A Well, I really wanted to make a living and I felt like, you know, working full time and building up enough cash to at least have a chance at buying it gave me freedom. It gave me the opportunity to build something and it gave me the opportunity to pay for my education. Uh, so, you know, I was able to contribute a little bit at home. I was able to get a car and do the things that young people want to do. And I also put myself through school and really set myself up for what I really wanted, which was to take a shot after I graduated from college and go into the big apple and work for a big corporation and start my career. So it was just an evolution. Of leadership, you know, the desire to lead, the desire to control your own destiny, the desire to make a living, the desire to be a winner.
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D 4 · C 4 · P 2 · Cm 3 3.35
Q without the flagship, they're toast. So talk about what you've seen in Xerox and elsewhere in terms of like, what is the thing holding back most companies? Is it, is it the will and the deter? Because like you mentioned, Xerox had the vision. They knew digital was coming, or is it the fact that they just are so overloaded on maintaining flagship that they can't think about anything else?
A Culture is the number one thing. You have to have a great company culture that's built on simplifying everything so you can do anything. You have to distribute net new innovation to the marketplace. You have to build products. The world doesn't know it yet needs, but once it gets them, it doesn't even realize how it ever lived without them. So this whole bias has to be Net new innovation led where you're building things that are really changing the game and the marketplace. That's where the leverage is to pull that off. You have to have a company culture. That's not looking internally, but it's seeing the world through the eyes of the customer and understanding everything from the external viewpoint. And it sounds simple. It sounds basic and it is, but basic things. Done extraordinarily well. Have proven hard to do for a lot of folks. So my feeling on it is you have to have an uncommonly great vision. Because people have to see themselves in a beautiful picture. The culture has to be radically simplified. And ultimately it has to be innovation driven and customer led. And if you could pull all that off, you got a good chance of doing some big things.
AI assessment note: “Culture is the number one thing. You have to have a great company culture”
