Bill Gates
United States
Born on 28 Oct 1955
Business Magnate
Born on 28 Oct 1955
Business Magnate
I think large organizations have a real tendency to block bad news from moving around the organization. People don't know how to deal with it... having it just be a matter of course that you get the bad news out there, and everybody is... talking about it on an open basis, I think is really fundamental.
Speech, Microsoft's Second Annual C.E.O. Summit, Seattle, Washington (May 28, 1998)
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