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...have been helpful had he researched his facts first. Would you call former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop an 'obnoxious drunken laggard?" How about IBM Chief Executive Officer Lewis Gerstner? Nationally acclaimed prize-winning author Louise Erdrich? How about former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) or Secretary of Labor and former Kennedy School Professor Robert S. Reich? Maybe U.S. News and World Report Economics Editor Susan Dentzer or Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) are 'drunken laggards.' If not, then surely John Guare, playwright and author of "Six Degrees of Separation" or Tonyaward winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks are looses...
...Berliners were toasting the departing American soldiers, a few blocks away Germany's business leaders were greeting a star-studded U.S. corporate delegation eager to get the new era of peace and prosperity off to a lucrative start. Among the Americans: General Motors ceo John Smith, IBM chairman Louis Gerstner, Goldman Sachs chief Stephen Friedman, Motorola's Robert Galvin, Morgan Stanley's Richard Fisher and Dwayne Andreas of Archer-Daniels-Midland. Said U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Holbrooke: "For almost five decades in the postwar period, the relationship ((between the U.S. and Europe)) was basically military. The departure...
...Moore, covers topics ranging from AIDS profiteering to pets on Prozac. In one of the series' typical segments, Moore stands outside the offices of various corporate chiefs and uses a megaphone to ask them to come down and perform simple tasks their employees carry out every day. Louis Gerstner of IBM is challenged to format a computer disk; he doesn't respond. But Ford's Alex Trotman does agree to change the oil in a jeep. After he completes the chore, Moore, referring to a Ford slogan, asks him, "If quality is job one, what is job two?" Trotman responds...
Critics derided Gerstner last summer for proclaiming that "the last thing IBM needs right now is a vision." These days, at least, no one doubts that Gerstner is in pursuit...
...when it launched a family of computers called the System/360, which were all compatible with one another. "IBM has to find a way to pull its product lines together into a coherent whole," says Stewart Alsop, editor in chief of the trade journal InfoWorld. "That's the question about Gerstner: Does this guy know enough about computers to know what makes a good product?" Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who is both a supplier and a rival for IBM, puts it more delicately. "I don't think it's clear where IBM will be in three to five years," Gates says...