The Book Depository Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis V. Gerstner
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Description: Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? : Paperback : Harper Collins Publishers Inc : 9780060523800 : 0060523808 : 20 Mar 2011 : The CEO of IBM, who led the most successful corporate turnaround in American history, reveals how the company went from a teetering giant to one of today's most preeminent worldwide corporations. The Book Depository Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis V. Gerstner - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780060523800
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Author: Birgit
Rating: 5
Review: Having lived through the IBM turn-around myself at the coalface as a very humble employee I found it interesting and enlightening to read this book of how it had looked from "the ivory tower" of corporate management and especially as seen through the eyes of an outsider, for Lou Gerstner was the first CEO who had not "grown up" in IBM. It was easy to read even for someone like me who does not speak "the management lingo", and I got a good idea of what he was up against and how he dealt with the challenges. Full marks to Lou Gerstner for achieving what he did. It wasn't pleasant for us on the shop floor, and in some ways it changed IBM irrevocably, but without his work IBM would not have been able to celebrate its first 100 years as a company in 2011.
Author: David Honnywill
Rating: 3
Review: As an IBMer, I can still see most of the underlying issues which the IBM organisation suffered from in the 1990s, still in existence today. Which points to the fact that many of the issues which Lou confronted are re-growing, not defeated and it is an ongoing fight to stop the destructive forces. The generic principles and insights cited were useful for any Global 500 company however. A good, light read.
