Inflection Point: How the Convergence of Cloud, Mobility, Apps, and Data Will Shape the Future of Business

10. Where Do We Go from Here?

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

—Jack Welch, former CEO, General Electric

I’ve always loved the Nike trademark “Just Do It.” It instantly invokes the positioning of the Nike brand. It is also a much-needed lesson in management. There is time for discussion, there is a time for consensus, and there is a time when you need to “Just Do It.”

My father, Jack Stawski, taught me much about business. He was the epitome of a role model, the son of a Polish immigrant who worked his way up from the plant floor to the executive suite at AlliedSignal, which was an aerospace, automotive, and engineering company created in the 1985 ...