But my hero is Lou Gerstner, who fibbed to us about the vision thing.
When IBM's board tapped Lou Gerstner for CEO in early 1993, investors expected a quick breakup.
Without Steve Jobs, there would have been no Lou Gerstner to reinvent IBM in the '90s.
Lou Gerstner, a heroic leader with a relentless customer focus, has proven himself a titan.
It took an outsider, Lou Gerstner, to unravel six layers of management and put IBM back together.
For example, McKinsey alumni Lou Gerstner and Jeff Skillings both went on to lead large corporations.
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Arming the enemy SHOULD LOU GERSTNER be selling IBM's precious technology to bitter rivals like Dell Computer and Compaq?
Mark Bertolini of Aetna is doing his best imitation of Lou Gerstner, engineer of the complete reinvention of IBM.
GoldenSource was a division of International Business Machines (IBM) that former CEO Lou Gerstner divested in 1994 to refocus and raise cash.
And sure there have been successful non-technical leaders (take Lou Gerstner at IBM) who came on board at a technology company and achieved great things.
Starting in 1993 when Lou Gerstner joined IBM and kept the company intact he embarked on a series of strategic moves to increase its services focus.
When Microsoft was described by Lou Gerstner in Business Week as 'a great marketing company, but not a great technology company' Mr Gates was furious according to evidence presented.
Lou Gerstner , who managed, after 15 years, to get IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) back in personal computer just as the industry is going out.
Buffett praised IBM CEOs Lou Gerstner and Sam Palmisano in his 2011 annual letter for rescuing IBM from the brink of bankruptcy 20 years ago and making it into a successful business today.
Lou Gerstner , a former RJR Nabisco executive, had no computer or technology experience, but he had a very successful tenure at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
Warren Buffett in his annual letter praised IBM CEOs Lou Gerstner and Sam Palmisano for rescuing the company from the brink of bankruptcy 20 years ago and making it into a successful business today.
In at least some respects, the company appears to be suffering from similar ailments to those that laid IBM low before Lou Gerstner was hired in 1993 to get it back on its feet.
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As for IBM, it found new and vibrant life after near-death thanks to Lou Gerstner's refusal to be panicked into breaking up the company the game-changing solution advocated by Wall Street analysts, investment bankers scenting fees and a good few of IBM's own senior managers.
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