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When you're blending digital and physical, you'd better know how things are made. When I talk to my students it's shocking how few of them have ever been to a factory, and how few of them know what a CNC machine is or how goods get from A to B efficiently.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
The enemy has to be outside the building, not inside. If the enemy is outside the building, whether you're working on innovation or your quarterly sales-target, you're on the same team… you're playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the back.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
If your strategy is to do everything, you have no strategy at all.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
Incumbents are not doomed, and disruptors are not ordained. When we started our research, we thought that all these new Silicon Valley businesses were going to come in and destroy the incumbents. What we actually found was that a number of incumbents were doing things that really allowed them to respond and be ready for change.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
Amazon is the archetype of a great brainy and brawny business because they do both so well but since every company is going to have to do those things, the skill set required of leaders will be different over the next couple of decades. In the old days, you could stay within a function, rise through that function, adding teammates to complement your skills…Today I talk about systems of leadership – and you need the ability to see the entire system.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
If your strategy is to do everything, you have no strategy at all.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
Incumbents are not doomed, and disruptors are not ordained.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
You can't stay in your lane anymore – you need to be good at multiple things, and understand interactions.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
In a world where everything is connected, there's bits and bytes moving, and leaders need to understand what happens when functions inside a company interact. What happens when your company is interacting with others inside of its ecosystem? There's a flow to business and leaders need to be able to see that flow.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
The physical world isn't going away. We are a physical species. While digitisation is enabling incredible things – the best companies seem to be combining the physical and digital; they seem to understand what it means when products and services are connected.
— Robert E. SiegelNPR Host and Senior News Correspondent for Over Three Decades
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