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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... meetings and small ones, and even at private sessions with CEOs and heads of state — I was asked: "How did you save IBM?" "What was it like when you got there?" "What were the problems?" "What specific things did you do to bring the ...
... meetings and small ones, and even at private sessions with CEOs and heads of state — I was asked: "How did you save IBM?" "What was it like when you got there?" "What were the problems?" "What specific things did you do to bring the ...
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... meeting with senior executives decades older than I was. Over the next nine years I advanced to the level of senior partner at McKinsey. I was responsible for its finance practice and was a member of its senior leadership committee. I ...
... meeting with senior executives decades older than I was. Over the next nine years I advanced to the level of senior partner at McKinsey. I was responsible for its finance practice and was a member of its senior leadership committee. I ...
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... meetings with the heads of many technology companies, presumably seeking advice on who should lead their number one competitor! (Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, candidly told one reporter that IBM should hire "someone lousy ...
... meetings with the heads of many technology companies, presumably seeking advice on who should lead their number one competitor! (Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, candidly told one reporter that IBM should hire "someone lousy ...
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... meeting of The Business Council, I broke away for an hour and a half to meet secretly with Paul in my hotel room. He had brought me the current financials and budgets for the company. The discussion that ensued was very sobering. IBM's ...
... meeting of The Business Council, I broke away for an hour and a half to meet secretly with Paul in my hotel room. He had brought me the current financials and budgets for the company. The discussion that ensued was very sobering. IBM's ...
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... meeting to pursue the issue one last time. We met in a new house that headhunter Gerry Roche and his wife had just ... meetings, spoke up more frequently this time. Murph, as he is called by his friends, was quite persuasive in arguing ...
... meeting to pursue the issue one last time. We met in a new house that headhunter Gerry Roche and his wife had just ... meetings, spoke up more frequently this time. Murph, as he is called by his friends, was quite persuasive in arguing ...
Índice
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| 18 | |
| 29 | |
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 |
PART MICULTURE | 179 |
On Corporate Culture | 181 |
An InsideOut World | 189 |
Leading by Principles | 200 |
PART IVLESSONS LEARNED | 217 |
FocusYou Have to Know and Love | 219 |
ExecutionStrategy Goes Only So Far | 229 |
Leadership Is Personal | 235 |
Back on the Beach | 103 |
A Brief History of IBM | 113 |
Making the Big Bets | 121 |
Servicesthe Key to Integration | 128 |
Building the Worlds Already Biggest | 136 |
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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| Título | Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change |
| Autor | Louis V. Gerstner |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | Harper Collins, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0060523808, 9780060523800 |
| N.º de páginas | 304 páginas |
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