财富精英励志演讲107:艰难的抉择(8)

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 　　Now one of things that I believe is that change not only requires an understanding of human nature, change also requires clear-eyed realism, change requires a deep understanding of what is wrong, so that means, for example, understanding all of issues and articulating¹ them to people. When I came to Hewlett Packard in 1999, this was a company as I mentioned, lagging further and further behind, as measured in innovation², as measured in financial performance, as measured in competitive³ position, by every measure, HP was falling further and further behind, and it was also a company dissolved into what I called 1000 trifles⁴ at 87 different business units, they all did their own thing, they all had their own brands in the market, 150 of them, believe it or not, when I asked them how many employees we had, no one could answer the question, because they were 87 different IT systems, and 87 different HR departments, not very effective. But people were so possessive of their resources and their power. When you come into transform a company, it is a leader's job to see things that others don't that is a leader's fundamental responsibility to see things before others see them. The leader's most fundamental job is to sense danger and opportunity ahead of others and to act on it.