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Ginni Rometty
American
Businesswoman
Believe
People
Technology
Think
Will
You
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The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
Ginni Rometty
You
Innovation
Transformation
Else
Way
Something
Something Else
Only
Idea
Makes
Continuous
Continuously
Survive
Transform
Company
Ask yourself when you learn the most. I guarantee it's when you felt at risk.
Ginni Rometty
You
Yourself
Risk
Most
Learn
Felt
Ask
Guarantee
When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.
Ginni Rometty
You
Simplicity
Remove
Speed
Layers
Happen
Growth and comfort do not coexist.
Ginni Rometty
Comfort
Coexist
Growth
When you manage your company for long-term shareholders, and you manage the company for clients, two of the biggest stakeholders, you will make the right decisions.
Ginni Rometty
You
Will
Shareholders
Long-Term
Make
Clients
Manage
Biggest
Decisions
Stakeholders
Your
Company
Right
Right Decisions
Two
Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.
Ginni Rometty
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Reality
People
Intelligence
Will
Some People
Think
Our
Some
Instead
Call
Artificial
Us
Enhance
Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.
Ginni Rometty
Good
Me
Remember
Think
Once
Someone
Good Thing
Comfort
Really
Coexist
Growth
Thing
I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.
Ginni Rometty
Life
You
Eyes
My Life
Sit
Think
Took
Everything
Say
Risk
Know
Most
Learn
Learned
Always
Close
Did
Them
Here
Career
You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing.
Ginni Rometty
You
Build
Own
Strategy
Competitor
Define
Another
Doing
Your
Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.
Ginni Rometty
Fly
Run
Operate
Without
Does
Trains
Banks
Planes
Much
If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.
Ginni Rometty
Me
You
Business
Opportunities
Value
Shifting
Our
About
Higher
Always
Model
Ask
Business Model
Your
Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.
Ginni Rometty
Work
Day
Every Day
Car
Brazil
Energy
Every
Think
Programs
Everything
Markets
Cities
India
Adoption
Developing
Mass
New
Major
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Enable
Reduce
Accommodate
Get
Tiny
Africa
Pollution
Congestion
Electric
Electric Cars
Help
Businesses
Helping
Started
Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients.
Ginni Rometty
Service
Innovation
Our
Above
Only
Beyond
Clients
Company
You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.
Ginni Rometty
You
Decision
Right Decision
Job
Value
Long
Think
Run
Higher
Long Run
Make
Continue
Manage
Move
Right
Digital, it is not the destination.
Ginni Rometty
Destination
Digital
You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.
Ginni Rometty
Me
You
Believe
About
Driving
Stick
Up
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Inclusion
Thing
I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization.
Ginni Rometty
Innovation
Think
Our
Particularly
Industry
Then
Cycle
Tech
Violent
I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.
Ginni Rometty
Think
Our
Given
Purpose
Feel
Clients
Target
Essential
Who
Company
I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.
Ginni Rometty
Speak
Others
Everyone
About
Talk
Opinion
Up
Ask
Then
One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.
Ginni Rometty
Day
Science
Will
Whatever
Back
One Day
Put
Look
Era
Math
Math And Science
Get
Going
Premium
The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.
Ginni Rometty
Year
Tell
Recommendation
Folks
About
Risk
Mentoring
Take
Talked
Always
Them
Last
Last Year
The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.
Ginni Rometty
You
Please
Ability
Shareholders
Because
Clients
Your
You can engineer change.
Ginni Rometty
You
Change
Engineer
Be first and be lonely.
Ginni Rometty
Lonely
First
And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.
Ginni Rometty
You
Soul
Heart
Age
Matter
Too Much
Think
Too
Say
About
Sacrifices
Put
Make
Learned
Always
Got
Came
Passionate
Heart And Soul
Much
Really
Your
Reason
Many
Early
Early Age
And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.
Ginni Rometty
Time
Technology
Woman
Engineer
Thought
Changed
Say
Though
About
Constraint
Could
Never
Because
Felt
Got
Did
Moved
Being
Really
Electrical
Actually
Apply
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