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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... kind to me in terms of not holding me accountable for the problems , but they also showed little patience for anything other than a fast recovery . It was a long , exhausting meeting for ev- eryone , I think . I remember flying back to ...
... kind to me in terms of not holding me accountable for the problems , but they also showed little patience for anything other than a fast recovery . It was a long , exhausting meeting for ev- eryone , I think . I remember flying back to ...
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... kind of change to the underlying model of computing that comes along about every ten or fifteen years . When that kind of a shift occurs , the compa- nies that seize the moment and lead the movement do exceptionally well and ev- eryone ...
... kind of change to the underlying model of computing that comes along about every ten or fifteen years . When that kind of a shift occurs , the compa- nies that seize the moment and lead the movement do exceptionally well and ev- eryone ...
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... kind of services I'm talking about here . The big bet we made was on another kind of services services that would address customer needs that frankly didn't exist during the 1960s , 1970s , and 1980s , prior to the Big Bang of rampant ...
... kind of services I'm talking about here . The big bet we made was on another kind of services services that would address customer needs that frankly didn't exist during the 1960s , 1970s , and 1980s , prior to the Big Bang of rampant ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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