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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... major benefit for our family finances , so I packed off for Dartmouth in September 1959 , without ever having set foot on its campus . Four years later I graduated with a degree in engineering sci- ence . I immediately went to Harvard ...
... major benefit for our family finances , so I packed off for Dartmouth in September 1959 , without ever having set foot on its campus . Four years later I graduated with a degree in engineering sci- ence . I immediately went to Harvard ...
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... major com- puter technology introduced since 1980. ... Traditional big comput- ers are not going to disappear overnight , but they are old technology , and the realm in which they hold sway is steadily shrinking . The brontosaurus moved ...
... major com- puter technology introduced since 1980. ... Traditional big comput- ers are not going to disappear overnight , but they are old technology , and the realm in which they hold sway is steadily shrinking . The brontosaurus moved ...
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... major stories and one lengthy editorial on IBM's problems . " Two questions still hang over the company , " its editors wrote . " In an industry driven by rapid technological change and swarming with smaller , nimbler firms , can a ...
... major stories and one lengthy editorial on IBM's problems . " Two questions still hang over the company , " its editors wrote . " In an industry driven by rapid technological change and swarming with smaller , nimbler firms , can a ...
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... major customers to the event , and it was im- portant for me to attend . I also knew that Henry Kravis , one of KKR's senior partners , would be there , and I decided that I would discuss my decision with him then . My name had already ...
... major customers to the event , and it was im- portant for me to attend . I also knew that Henry Kravis , one of KKR's senior partners , would be there , and I decided that I would discuss my decision with him then . My name had already ...
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... major business publication . It was time to get this whole ordeal over with . Burke and I agreed to announce on that Fri- day , March 26. That set off a mad scramble to organize both internal and external messages in the midst of a ...
... major business publication . It was time to get this whole ordeal over with . Burke and I agreed to announce on that Fri- day , March 26. That set off a mad scramble to organize both internal and external messages in the midst of a ...
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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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