Lou Gerstner
Lou Gerstner
Louis Vincent Gerstner Jr.is an American businessman, best known for his tenure as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002 when he retired as CEO in March and chairman in December. He is largely credited with turning around IBM's fortunes...
games culture aspect
I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game
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Five years ago, using the Net to buy a car or trade stock or earn college credits was revolutionary, ... So why not envision a day when we vote with much greater convenience -- from our home or workplace -- or a day beyond that when issues are presented to all the people of the world and we vote as a global statement of individual preference without regard for conventions like political parties or national borders?
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Y2K continued to hurt us, but that's over now, ... We're putting it behind us and we are getting our businesses back on track.
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Over the past 12 month we have made a series of strategic decisions that have affected short term revenue, but will yield and are already yielding a more profitable portfolio,
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That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different industry than just a few years ago.
issue
This is a big issue for every server company.
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Unless we arrest the wasting decline of our public schools America is destined to be an also-ran in the emerging digital economy,
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We're probably about five years into a 30-year cycle of transformation, ... But there is simply no doubt that 25 years from now, when people reflect on the seminal changes of the early days of the century we are about to begin, the impact of networked computing will stand in relief.
chapter moves
Chapter One (of the Internet) was about e-commerce and e-business. Chapter Two moves us to 'Do it for me'
looks spain problem
When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.
thinking people style
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
positive technology opportunity
This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.
believe years salary
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
running business successful
I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.