Leadership philosophy



    For 100 years, various people, organizations, private companies have turned to IBM for help. All of them were looking, in fact, for one thing - the perfect combination and application of existing opportunities, developments and skills. In attempts to imagine what this world could be and build it, many people spent more than one year, not one million.

    This process, let's call it, the optimization of reality, it is impossible to imagine without another, parallel - thought. People think constantly, therefore, for any company that is trying to achieve success, it is very important to understand what employees and customers think, how they think and, importantly, what conclusions they draw from their own reasoning.

    When we talk about any organization headed by a person, we understand that his thoughts and actions are of fundamental importance at all levels of government. Good managers, charismatic and responsible, we are used to call "leaders" - these are people who lead, or rather, their thoughts, followers. Brilliant leaders are usually called “visionaries,” because such people can not only find like-minded people, but also explain to them the meaning of the movement.

    Thomas Watson, one of the founders of the National Cash Register Company, which later joined IBM's Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), once said: “Thought has been the father of every action since the beginning of time. "I didn’t think" costs the world millions of dollars. "

    What you think is also worth saying. Not only in order to convey your own thoughts to others, but also to hear the opinions of other people that may affect your model of perception of the world. It is for this reason that IBM holds meetings of various representatives of business, science, government organizations - in order to discuss problems and issues related to leadership. After all, the person who is at the head needs not only to cope effectively with the current processes, but also to look into the future himself in order not to remain in the past.

    In fact, you can summarize the basic questions that people responsible are asked: How will a product or company behave tomorrow, in a changed world? What will be our success and how to adequately measure it? What contribution do we make to the life of the whole society? If the first question and the second questions are part of business planning, then not everyone will be able to immediately answer the third. But others can tell him.

    However, enough preface is enough. It's time to show who and what was being discussed at the recently concluded Think forum in New York. First of all, I would like to note the audience gathered in New York: these are not only representatives of IBM itself, but also other very interesting personalities: Sir Howard Stinger, President of Sony Corporation, Joshua Cooper Rameau (Kissinger Associates), Hirotaka Takeuchi (professor at Harvard Business School), King of Jordan Abdullah II, Jamie Dimon (CEO JPMorgan Chase & Co), Jim McNerney (CEO Boeing), Farid Zakaria (sensational flight commentator CNN, moderator of the discussion Think), Mexican President Felipe Calderona, Pascal Lamy (WTO Head), Peter Woeser (Royal Dutch Shell CEO) and Thomas Friedman (count clever NYT and author of Flat World - not to be confused with a series of Pratchett books).

    It seems to me that such a heterogeneous audience does not gather in any place or at any event. However, all of these people came to the IBM Leadership Forum to share their vision and to hear the opinions of other participants in the discussion.

    It is worth starting with our compatriot Igor Aramzyan, the general director of RVC, who spoke about his understanding of leadership as a phenomenon:



    Sasha Johnson, one of the directors of the VTB joint fund - DFJ, answered the question about what her vision of leadership is in the future - what an idea worthy of embodiment will look like:



    King of Jordan Abdullah II said that now "people want freedom and opportunity," and the leaders of the region are aware of the need for reform. Separately, the king stipulated the importance of information technology for the development of his country: about 1% of the population is involved in the technological sector, while the industry has reached a turnover of $ 2.2 billion and makes up 14% of the GDP of this small state.

    Another head of state, namely the President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, interrupted the official and protocol message with a greeting to the IBM team, saying that his sister was working in this company.

    But one of the most provocative performances, as many expected, belongs to Farid Zakaria. His entire lecture was devoted to problems of various levels - from private to corporate. The University of Minnesota conducted research and came to the conclusion (and it was voiced by Mr. Zakaria) that people deal with short-term problems much more effectively - therefore, a person needs to act quickly and carefully in any situation, preventing the spread of activity for a long time, as this In this case, a huge number of unnecessary solutions, the so-called organizational perturbations. This is the longest video in the review:



    But Joshua Cooper Rameau, the author of The Age of the Unthinkable, about the latest world recession, noted that humanity is constantly trying to counter outdated ideas that have long been doomed to failure:



    Summing up: a huge number of people expressed their thoughts about leadership at the conference. These are people whose areas of activity may not even overlap, and this is what makes the diversity of opinions so interesting. Today everyone has the opportunity to find out what the king thinks about the role of information technology (especially against the background of the noisy revolutions in the east) in society and how leadership is perceived in the largest companies in the world.

    If you are interested in this video, you can watch all the speeches and discussions on the IBM Think forum .

    In conclusion, I would like to say the following: to “think” is not only to create something new from the void, even in our own mind. To think is to analyze, to generalize, to structure. “Thinking” is a modern way of living for every intelligent individual on planet Earth.

    From September 23 to October 23 at the Lincoln Center, located in New York, the Think Exhibit exhibition will be held - this is the first of its kind museum, organized from large information screens on which, through visualization, visitors will show the history of mankind, in a convenient form they will show data, up to This is not processed for the general public. All panels are touch sensitive, allow you to switch and change the contents, learning about how humanity and modern technology make the world a better place. If one of you is in the right place - come in, admission is free.


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