One of the most disturbing things about getting older is that it creeps up on you. Things that seem fresh in the memory turn out to have happened decades earlier.
John Harvey-Jones is a case in point for me. I remember his BBC TV series, Troubleshooter, very clearly. This large, apparently bumbling and rather avuncular chap, [...]
In his book, Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance, Louis V Gerstner, Jr. says a rather moving and also very insightful thing about the psychology of being a Chief Executive Officer.
Gerstner’s book includes his farewell letter to all staff, confirming his retirement. In it, he says this:
‘When I joined IBM [. . .] the board asked [...]
I can’t help it, but I find a lot to dislike about Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of USA giant, General Electric, from 1981 until 2001. I think it’s Jack’s overt obsession with ‘winning’. No doubt American readers are already thinking: ‘and that’s why you Brits are such a bunch of losers’. But most non-Brits [...]
David Packard, who founded the American electronics giant Hewlett-Packard in the nineteen-thirties with his Stanford University pal Bill Hewlett, working out of a garage in Palo Alto California, reminds me of James Stewart. You may have found yourself slumped in front of a TV at Christmas watching James Stewart in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. [...]
When Carly Fiorina was employed as the CEO of Hewlett Packard in July 1999, her brief was clearly to bring about change. She soon decided that she and her top team were not merely ‘change agents’; what was needed were ‘change warriors’.
So far, so macho. We must remind ourselves of a story that Carly [...]
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