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...
thinking people style
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
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I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
thinking important values
I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.
writing thinking giving
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.
moving mean thinking
I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.
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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.