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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... reports on business from the heads of domestic and international sales , discussion of a regulatory filing , and the ... report on financial affairs . Among the items reported was that the March quar- ter's gross margin on hardware had ...
... reports on business from the heads of domestic and international sales , discussion of a regulatory filing , and the ... report on financial affairs . Among the items reported was that the March quar- ter's gross margin on hardware had ...
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... reports ( a total of more than 200 executives ) was to do the same . For each Bear Hug visit , I asked that a one- to two- page report be sent to me and anyone else who could solve that customer's problems . I wanted these meetings to ...
... reports ( a total of more than 200 executives ) was to do the same . For each Bear Hug visit , I asked that a one- to two- page report be sent to me and anyone else who could solve that customer's problems . I wanted these meetings to ...
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... report to him . I won't minimize the challenges we faced in reorienting the portfolio around the Net . I can say without hesitation , however , that a far bigger and harder piece of work would center on ... reports were not ringing with 258.
... report to him . I won't minimize the challenges we faced in reorienting the portfolio around the Net . I can say without hesitation , however , that a far bigger and harder piece of work would center on ... reports were not ringing with 258.
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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