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...raved about a recent Krzyzewski talk. "It's about honesty, it's about love, and often times, in the big world, you don't see many leaders get up and talk about things like that." Mack equates Krzyzewski's leadership skills to those of legends like IBM's Lou Gerstner and GE's Jack Welch...
...raved about a recent Krzyzewski speech. "It's about honesty, it's about love, and often times, in the big world, you don't see many leaders get up and talk about things like that." Mack equates Krzyzewski's leadership skills to those of legends like IBM's Lou Gerstner and GE's Jack Welch...
...Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA ’65, ran the computer company IBM from 1993 to 2002 and is now chairman of the investment titan Carlyle Group...
...Iberian Peninsula. After she led IBM Spain to 7% revenue growth last year, handily outpacing her counterparts in the rest of Western Europe, the company added Israel, Greece and Turkey to her portfolio. (She already had Portugal.) Moraleda was managing a small Spanish IBM subsidiary when ex-chairman Louis Gerstner picked her as his top assistant for international operations. Her ascent has turned the mother of two into a role model in Spain, where women still struggle for acceptance in the boardroom. --By Jane Walker/Madrid...
...have learned a lot of what he knows from Gerstner, but early in his career Palmisano gleaned valuable insights from another business legend, Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart. At the time, Palmisano had been tapped as a "high potential" leader at IBM and was serving a stint as an executive assistant to Gerstner's predecessor, John Akers, learning the ropes by shadowing the CEO. It was 1989, a few years before Gerstner arrived to tear apart IBM's insular culture, and Big Blue was still plagued by rigid hierarchies, endless meetings and wasteful trappings of executive life...