Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic TurnaroundThorndike Press, 2003 - 527 páginas A New York Times BestsellerIn 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on its way to extinction, a victim of its lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era it had helped invent. Then Lou Gerstner was brought in. Now he offers a blow-by-blow account of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation -- the first-hand story of an extraordinary turnaround. |
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... company . But it would also have been painful for customers and contrary to what they were pleading with us to do , which was to fix the problem rather than walk away from it . Over the longer term , we would have destroyed the company's ...
... company . But it would also have been painful for customers and contrary to what they were pleading with us to do , which was to fix the problem rather than walk away from it . Over the longer term , we would have destroyed the company's ...
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... company most of us revered up until the early 1990s , and what contrib- uted , at least in my view , to its breathtaking decline . The company's origins go back to the early twentieth century , when Thomas J. Watson , Sr. , combined ...
... company most of us revered up until the early 1990s , and what contrib- uted , at least in my view , to its breathtaking decline . The company's origins go back to the early twentieth century , when Thomas J. Watson , Sr. , combined ...
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... company with an array of multibillion - dollar busi- nesses attached to that single franchise . And the franchise was a gold mine . IBM's share of the computing market skyrocketed . Competitors reeled ; many disappeared . The company's ...
... company with an array of multibillion - dollar busi- nesses attached to that single franchise . And the franchise was a gold mine . IBM's share of the computing market skyrocketed . Competitors reeled ; many disappeared . The company's ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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