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Nov 12, 2002  Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Tells the story of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation. In his own words, Gerstner offers a blow-by-blow account of his arrival at the company and his campaign to rebuild the leadership team and give the workforce a renewed sense of purpose. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Gerstner, Jr. Keeping the Comp any T ogether In the mid-1980s, the trend was for one company to specialize in just one or two areas of information technology. If you made databases, then you made only databases. If you made operating systems, you stuck with it.

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Elephants Can't Dance

from The Rational Edge: Elenburg reviews this account of IBM's historic turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., the former chairman and CEO who led the firm from the brink of bankruptcy and mainframe obscurity back into the forefront of the technology business.

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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change free download ebook epub, mobi, azw3, pdf. Author: Louis V. Gerstner

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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change

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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Gerstner quarterbacked one of history’s most dramatic corporate turnarounds. For those who follow business stories like football games, his tale of the rise, fall and rise of IBM might be the ultimate slow-motion replay. He became IBM’s CEO in 1993, when the gargantuan company was near collapse. The book’s opening section snappily reports Gerstner’s decisions in his first 18 months on the job-the critical “sprint” that moved IBM away from the brink of destruction. The following sections describe the marathon fight to make IBM once again “a company that mattered.” Gerstner writes most vividly about the company’s culture. On his arrival, “there was a kind of hothouse quality to the place. It was like an isolated tropical ecosystem that had been cut off from the world for too long. As a result, it had spawned some fairly exotic life-forms that were to be found nowhere else.” One of Gerstner’s first tasks was to redirect the company’s attention to the outside world, where a marketplace was quickly changing and customers felt largely ignored. He succeeded mightily. Upon his retirement this year, IBM was undeniably “a company that mattered.” Gerstner’s writing occasionally is myopic. For example, he makes much of his own openness to input from all levels of the company, only to mock an earnest (and overlong) employee e-mail (reprinted in its entirety) that was critical of his performance. Also, he includes a bafflingly long and dull appendix of his collected communications to IBM employees. Still, the book is a well-rendered self-portrait of a CEO who made spectacular change on the strength of personal leadership.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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“[Gerstner] entertains as he educates.” (New York Times Book Review)

“A well-rendered self-portrait of a CEO who made spectacular change on the strength of personal leadership.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Effective, to the point…Louis V. Gerstner Jr deserves his place in the management hall of fame.” (Financial Times)

“The best business book I’ve ever read.” (Imus in the Morning)

“[Lou Gerstner] has the substance of a genuine and … interesting story.” (Wall Street Journal)

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