Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic TurnaroundA 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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The shareholders were reasonably 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 eryone , I think .
The shareholders were reasonably 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 eryone , I think .
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There was a growing confidence inside IBM that the industry was on the cusp of a fundamental shift — the kind of change to the underlying model of computing that comes along about every ten or fifteen years . When that kind of a shift ...
There was a growing confidence inside IBM that the industry was on the cusp of a fundamental shift — the kind of change to the underlying model of computing that comes along about every ten or fifteen years . When that kind of a shift ...
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But that is not the 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 ...
But that is not the 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 ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
PART I GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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| Título | Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround Core Series Thorndike Core Thorndike Large Print Nonfiction Thorndike Large Print Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series |
| Autor | Louis V. Gerstner |
| Edición | en letra grande |
| Editor | Thorndike Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0786252553, 9780786252558 |
| N.º de páginas | 527 páginas |
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