by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 7, 2011 | Business & Leadership
In my blog ‘Gerstner and the IBM turnaround: vision or execution’, I wrote about the life-threatening hole that IBM had got itself into by the early 1990s, before Louis Gerstner was persuaded to take up one of the most challenging Chief Executive roles in the...
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 | Nov 14, 2009 | Business & Leadership
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,...
