Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic ChangeHarper Collins, 16 dic 2003 - 304 páginas Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? sums up Lou Gerstner's historic business achievement, bringing IBM back from the brink of insolvency to lead the computer business once again.Offering a unique case study drawn from decades of experience at some of America's top companies -- McKinsey, American Express, RJR Nabisco -- Gerstner's insights into management and leadership are applicable to any business, at any level. Ranging from strategy to public relations, from finance to organization, Gerstner reveals the lessons of a lifetime running highly successful companies. |
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... clearly among the most important were Dennie Welsh and Sam Palmisano , who built our services company ; John Thompson , who created our Software Group ; Abby Kohnstamm , who took a cacophony of confused messages and melded them into one ...
... clearly among the most important were Dennie Welsh and Sam Palmisano , who built our services company ; John Thompson , who created our Software Group ; Abby Kohnstamm , who took a cacophony of confused messages and melded them into one ...
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... clear to me that I didn't want to stay in consulting as a career . Although I enjoyed the intellectual challenge , the fast pace , and the interaction with top- ranking senior people , I found myself increasingly frustrated playing the ...
... clear to me that I didn't want to stay in consulting as a career . Although I enjoyed the intellectual challenge , the fast pace , and the interaction with top- ranking senior people , I found myself increasingly frustrated playing the ...
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... the process of putting their own money on the line through direct ownership of the company- became a critical part of the management philosophy I brought to IBM . By 1992 it was clear to all that while RJR Introduction 5.
... the process of putting their own money on the line through direct ownership of the company- became a critical part of the management philosophy I brought to IBM . By 1992 it was clear to all that while RJR Introduction 5.
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... clear to all that while RJR Nabisco itself was doing quite well , the LBO was not going to produce the financial returns the owners had expected . It was clear to me that KKR was headed for the exit , so it made sense for me to do the ...
... clear to all that while RJR Nabisco itself was doing quite well , the LBO was not going to produce the financial returns the owners had expected . It was clear to me that KKR was headed for the exit , so it made sense for me to do the ...
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... clear that we think its prospects are very bleak . " Morris and Ferguson wrote a longer , more technical , and even grimmer report on IBM and sold it to corporations and institutions for a few thousand dollars per copy . Among others ...
... clear that we think its prospects are very bleak . " Morris and Ferguson wrote a longer , more technical , and even grimmer report on IBM and sold it to corporations and institutions for a few thousand dollars per copy . Among others ...
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Out to the Field | 41 |
Operation Bear Hug | 49 |
Stop the Bleeding and Hold the Vision | 56 |
Creating the Leadership Team | 73 |
Creating a Global Enterprise | 83 |
Back on the Beach | 103 |
PART IIICULTURE | 179 |
On Corporate Culture | 181 |
An InsideOut World | 189 |
Leading by Principles | 200 |
PART IVLESSONS LEARNED | 217 |
FocusYou Have to Know and Love | 219 |
Execution Strategy Goes Only So Far | 229 |
Leadership Is Personal | 235 |
A Brief History of IBM | 113 |
Making the Big Bets | 121 |
Servicesthe Key to Integration | 128 |
Building the Worlds Already Biggest | 136 |
Opening the Company Store | 146 |
Unstacking the Stack and Focusing the Portfolio | 153 |
The Emergence of ebusiness | 165 |
Reflections on Strategy | 176 |
Elephants Can Dance | 242 |
IBMa Farewell | 253 |
APPENDICES | 259 |
Appendix AThe Future of ebusiness | 261 |
Appendix BFinancial Overview | 277 |
Index | 286 |
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround Louis V. Gerstner Vista previa restringida - 2002 |
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