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Walton had asked Akers to give a speech at a university near Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., and he invited both Akers and his young assistant to come by the next day to sit in on a staff meeting. That morning Palmisano was shocked to see Walton, one of the richest men in America, pull up to the hotel in his battered pickup truck and drive the two IBM suits over to his company's bare-bones headquarters. As Walton's top lieutenants spoke, the chairman took copious notes. Then, after about 90 minutes, Walton abruptly excused himself...
...Cochrans are the working poor on a losing streak. Until October, De-Shawto had a job at the Wal-Mart deli counter; Phenom drove a pizza-delivery van until her pregnancy made her too sick to continue. Now a few days a week, De-Shawto gets up before dawn at their temporary home at the Barbara Bonner Family Shelter and heads off to work prepping cars to be sold at a local auto-auction facility. He's lucky to take home...
...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...
Teixeira said that just two weeks ago, his wife saw Barbosa at an area Wal-Mart with his daughter...
...chat with one of the many senior citizens who work as greeters. They are a fearless lot, and the old gent teased the boss with a question: "Did you give everyone a big raise?" Scott returned a look of mock horror. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "This is Wal-Mart!" --With reporting by William Boston/Berlin, Neil Gough/Shenzhen and Rita Healy/Denver