After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
Processes break in two ways. They break because they don’t have the right checks and balances and because they don’t have the right execution. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
The day you feel like you’ve won, you need to drive out of the parking lot and not come back. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
I go all over the place. I do like the ability to go around the company at different levels to find the people that have the actual answers to the question. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right – lined up from R&D out to the field. Mark V. Hurd Read Quote
