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Who says elephants can't dance? leading a great enterprise through dramatic change
CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr's memoir about the turnaround of IBM and his transformation of the company into the industry leader of the computer age.
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- "CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr's memoir about the turnaround of IBM and his transformation of the company into the industry leader of the computer age."@en
- "In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent. Enter Lou Gerstner. The presumption was that Gerstner had joined IBM to preside over its continued dissolution into a confederation of autonomous business units -- effectively eliminating the corporation that had invented many of the industry's most important technologies. Instead, Gerstner took hold of the company, making the bold decision to keep it together, defiantly announcing, "The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.""@en
- "In the history of modern business, many companies have gone from being industry leaders to the verge of extinction. Through the heroic efforts of a new management team, some of those companies have even succeeded in resuscitating themselves and living on in the shadow of their former stature. But only one company has been at the pinnacle of an industry, fallen to near collapse, and then, beyond anyone's expectations, returned to set the agenda. That company is IBM. [This book] tells the story of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation. In [the book, the author] offers [an] account of his arrival at the company and his campaign to rebuild the leadership team and give the workforce a renewed sense of purpose. In the process, [he] defined a strategy for the computing giant and remade the ossified culture bred by the company's own success ... Taking readers deep into the world of IBM's CEO, [he] recounts the high-level meetings and explains the pressure-filled, no-turning-back decisions that had to be made. He also offers his hard-won conclusions about the essence of what makes a great company run."
- "Tells of IBM's drop from 1990 being it's most profitable year, to 1993 when the company was on a watch list for extinction, until Gerstner took over and decided to try to save the company."
- "In 1990, IBM recorded its largest profit in history. By 1993, when Gerstner was hired, however, the computer industry had swept past IBM and the company seemed headed for extinction, a victim of its own lumbering size and rigid corporate culture. Rather than preside over IBM's dissolution, Gerstner rebuilt the company and turned it from a dinosaur to industry leader."
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- "Who says elephants can't dance? leading a great enterprise through dramatic change"@en
- "Who says elephants can't dance? inside IBM's historic turnaround"@en
- "Who says elephants can't dance? inside IBM's historic turnaround"
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