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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... needed fundamental change in the way we carried out almost every process at IBM . All of our business processes were cumbersome and highly expensive . So in 1993 we began what ultimately became one of the largest , if not the largest ...
... needed fundamental change in the way we carried out almost every process at IBM . All of our business processes were cumbersome and highly expensive . So in 1993 we began what ultimately became one of the largest , if not the largest ...
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... needed to go , to follow me there , I needed to get them to stop being followers . This wasn't a logical , linear chal- lenge . It was counterintuitive , centered around social cues and emotion rather than reason . Tough as that was ...
... needed to go , to follow me there , I needed to get them to stop being followers . This wasn't a logical , linear chal- lenge . It was counterintuitive , centered around social cues and emotion rather than reason . Tough as that was ...
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... needed to change , but we didn't change . We said we needed new strategies , and we created them , but we didn't implement them . We said we wanted IBM to remain the leader in our industry , but we didn't do what we had to do to retain ...
... needed to change , but we didn't change . We said we needed new strategies , and we created them , but we didn't implement them . We said we wanted IBM to remain the leader in our industry , but we didn't do what we had to do to retain ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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