'I think if you don't have passion, and you're not excited about the task at hand,' then you're not going to be successful, said Oracle CEO MarkVHurd
When Oracle CEO Mark Hurd joined the tech company in 2010 as its president, he quickly realized he had to transform Oracle if it was going to thrive in a changing market.
"Now you're saying to people, 'We're going to change what you sell, and we're going to change who you sell it to.' And so a lot of people said, 'I just don't want to do that,'"Of Oracle's 35,000 to 40,000 employees, hundreds left over the first few years of the transformation plan, including some veteran employees who publicly said they were unhappy with the company's new direction.
Hurd said,"I hate to say it because it sounds like a non-empathetic answer," but his point is that,"if you don't have passion, and you're not excited about the task at hand," then you're not going to be successful. If an employee chooses to leave in this situation, then it is for both their and the company's benefit.
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