by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 30, 2010 | Business & Leadership
When he arrived at IBM , Gerstner said to a press conference in July 1993, after his first 100 days, ‘There’s been a lot of speculation as to when I’m going to deliver a vision of IBM, and what I’d like to say to all of you is that the last thing IBM needs right now...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 22, 2010 | Business & Leadership
Carly Fiorina and the HP Compaq merger In September 2001, Hewlett Packard’s gutsy new CEO, Carly Fiorina – ‘the most powerful woman in business,’ according to Fortune magazine in 1998 – announced the acquisition by Hewlett Packard of the major PC manufacturer,...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 22, 2010 | Business & Leadership
Carly Fiorina was employed as the CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP) in July 1999. She drove through a programme of change in the face of what she saw as a company that had taken Bill Hewlett’s and David Packard’s philosophy of devolving decision-making as far as...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 16, 2010 | Business & Leadership
Jack Welch was, of course, CEO of America’s General Electric corporation (GE) for twenty years, from 1981 to 2001. During his tenure, the market capitalisation of GE rose from $14 billion to $410 billion, making GE the most valuable company in the world....
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 9, 2010 | Leaders from History
I must confess that I have a bit of thing about Napoleon. A quick check on Amazon will show you (reassuringly, perhaps, for me) that I am not alone. There are a lot of books about Napoleon. If you are a student of leadership, then you come up against Napoleon like a...
