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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... going to have a vision for a company , the first frame of that vision better be that you're making money and that the company has got its economics correct . " And so we are committed to make this company profitable , and that's what ...
... going to have a vision for a company , the first frame of that vision better be that you're making money and that the company has got its economics correct . " And so we are committed to make this company profitable , and that's what ...
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... going to be a perfor- mance - based culture . I am personally involved in filling all the new key jobs in this ... going to do it . We're going to do it together . This is going to be a group of change agents with the feeling of ...
... going to be a perfor- mance - based culture . I am personally involved in filling all the new key jobs in this ... going to do it . We're going to do it together . This is going to be a group of change agents with the feeling of ...
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... going to change the world . But our perspective started with what was going to have to happen inside all of the world's existing insti- tutions banks , hospitals , universities , re- tailers , government agencies - to change the way ...
... going to change the world . But our perspective started with what was going to have to happen inside all of the world's existing insti- tutions banks , hospitals , universities , re- tailers , government agencies - to change the way ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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