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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... early 1990s . This was a crisis we all faced . We needed to start un- - derstanding ourselves as one enterprise , driven by one coherent idea . The only person who could communicate that was the CEO me . These communications were ...
... early 1990s . This was a crisis we all faced . We needed to start un- - derstanding ourselves as one enterprise , driven by one coherent idea . The only person who could communicate that was the CEO me . These communications were ...
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... 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 several small companies to form 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 several small companies to form the ...
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... early 1990s . It had docu- mented numerous strategies to deal with a changing world . One document described the environment as " a sea of speedboats sur- rounding a floundering super tanker [ IBM ] . " Newspaper accounts in the early ...
... early 1990s . It had docu- mented numerous strategies to deal with a changing world . One document described the environment as " a sea of speedboats sur- rounding a floundering super tanker [ IBM ] . " Newspaper accounts in the early ...
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Introduction | 13 |
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