IBM REDUX: LOU GERSTNER AND THE BUSINESS TURNAROUND OF THE DECADE
Language: English
Published by Harpercollins, 2000
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Type: Book This book deals with the Chief Executive Officer, Lou Gerstiner of Big Blue (IBM) and the sensational accomplishments of this company.
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- Title
- IBM REDUX: LOU GERSTNER AND THE BUSINESS TURNAROUND OF THE DECADE
- Author
- Garr, Doug
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0887309445
- ISBN 13
- 9780887309441
- Item weight
- 11 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾Tall
- Seller catalogs
- Literature, Language, & Reading
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Carr, a former IBM speech writer, possesses an insider's knowledge about the Gerstner years at IBM: the despair of watching the company sink into the tar pits of ever-deeper red ink; the ruthlessness of the early firings and other cost controls (one woman was downsized--"excessed" is the actual IBM euphemism--when she was eight-and-a-half-months pregnant and coming off a stellar performance review; another was given his termination papers while in a coma); the business decisions that led to the turnaround; and finally the elation of seeing the company reinvented as a nimble information-services provider.
This is far from a hagiography of Gerstner, however. Because Carr didn't have access to him, he relies on anecdotes from those who know Gerstner and have worked with him, and the result is a fascinating portrait of the CEO as a young man (one former high school football team-mate recalls an errant pass from quarterback Gerstner that led to the team-mate's career-ending knee injury); as a man in a hurry (the chapters on Gerstner's years at American Express and RJR Nabisco foreshadow his accomplishments at IBM); and finally as a seasoned businessman who succeeded in overhauling a company that few thought would survive intact. --Lou Schuler, Amazon.com
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