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If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar.
Ginni Rometty
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One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation.
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The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.
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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.
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You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.
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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.
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I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.
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With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.
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I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.
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Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.
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Ask yourself when you learn the most. I guarantee it's when you felt at risk.
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I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.
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