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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... organizations , to build a cus- tomer - oriented organization . It was a painful and sometimes tumultuous process to get the organization to embrace this new direction , but by mid - 1995 we were ready to imple- ment it . We broke our ...
... organizations , to build a cus- tomer - oriented organization . It was a painful and sometimes tumultuous process to get the organization to embrace this new direction , but by mid - 1995 we were ready to imple- ment it . We broke our ...
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... organization , and how one fit into the organization , was considered a very important subject . Kremlinology whereby you judge who was in and out and up and down according to the lineup of leaders atop Lenin's tomb on May Day was a ...
... organization , and how one fit into the organization , was considered a very important subject . Kremlinology whereby you judge who was in and out and up and down according to the lineup of leaders atop Lenin's tomb on May Day was a ...
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... organization . We had some very enterprising people , however , particularly in our personal com- puter company . You could always tell when the PC company was about to announce a re- organization , because executives would call the ...
... organization . We had some very enterprising people , however , particularly in our personal com- puter company . You could always tell when the PC company was about to announce a re- organization , because executives would call the ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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