Ginni Rometty

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity · 2 Mar 2023 podcast

You know, because I actually, A, there's a leader for a time, but then there's a leader for a situation, right?

And so I've had to do plenty of unpopular things.

I think anytime you have to run a company that endures a century and has to endure another century, you will do unpopular things.

You have no choice.

And I often felt I had to sacrifice things for the long term.

And whether that would have been really difficult things like job changes or reductions, or whether it would be things like, hey, we're going to change the way we do our semiconductors, and a whole different philosophy.

You have no choice.

I mean, and in times of crisis as well, you got to be, I always said it's not a popularity contest.

So that's, none of these jobs are popularity contests.

I don't care if your company's got one person or half a million, they're not popularity contests.

When you've got to change a company, it's really tempting to say throw everything else out, back to that what must endure, right?

But I know when I took over to start, I knew how much had to change.

The more I got into it, I could see, wow, a lot more had to change, right?

Because we needed a platform.

We'd always done our best when we had a platform, a technology platform.

You will go back in time and you'll think of the mainframe systems.

You'll think of the PC.

You'll think of perhaps middleware.

You could even call services a platform, right?

we needed a platform, the next platform here to be there.

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