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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... talk about your business . " I mention this episode because it had an unintended , but terribly powerful ripple ef- fect . By that afternoon an e - mail about my hitting the Off button on the overhead pro- jector was crisscrossing the ...
... talk about your business . " I mention this episode because it had an unintended , but terribly powerful ripple ef- fect . By that afternoon an e - mail about my hitting the Off button on the overhead pro- jector was crisscrossing the ...
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... talk about them in that July meeting at least , I didn't talk about them as forthrightly as I might have because I did not want our competitors to see where we were going . The key strategic decisions that were already made before ...
... talk about them in that July meeting at least , I didn't talk about them as forthrightly as I might have because I did not want our competitors to see where we were going . The key strategic decisions that were already made before ...
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... talking about PCs or data centers to share information and conduct transac- tions . In effect , the first stage of the Internet revolution allowed computers to talk to one another . What's going to happen next ( based on yet another set ...
... talking about PCs or data centers to share information and conduct transac- tions . In effect , the first stage of the Internet revolution allowed computers to talk to one another . What's going to happen next ( based on yet another set ...
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Foreword | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
GRABBING HOLD | 21 |
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