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Rick Wagoner

"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."

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"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."

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Akshay Vasu

"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager."

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Akshay Vasu

"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."

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Akshay Vasu

"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."

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Akshay Vasu

"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."

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Akshay Vasu

"If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster."

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Akshay Vasu

"Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations."

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Akshay Vasu

"We need to learn to protect our time."

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Akshay Vasu

"The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization."

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Akshay Vasu

"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."

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Akshay Vasu

"Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly."

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Rick Wagoner
"Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street."

Management

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Rick Wagoner
"History shows you don't know what the future brings."

History

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Rick Wagoner
"We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating."

Time

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Rick Wagoner
"On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have."

Career

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Rick Wagoner
"We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly."

Practice

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Rick Wagoner
"All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace."

Future

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Rick Wagoner
"A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain."

Business

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Rick Wagoner
"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."

Talk

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Rick Wagoner
"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world."

Creativity

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Rick Wagoner
"This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too."

Career

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