Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

- Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround -

Rating: 4/5

Inside Jacket Summary: ‘… tells the story of IBM’s competitive and cultural transformation. In his own words, Gerstner offers a blow-by-blow account of his arrival at the company and his campaign to rebuild the leadership team …’

Comments: I have had this book for a while, but I was not to gung-ho on starting what looked like another ghost-written buzzword leadership book… but this book was actually pretty good and none of those things. Gerstner wrote it himself, so it comes across like a captains log or daily journal of his events at IBM. Plus the book is very authentic feeling, almost too authentic, in that you occasionally  feel like your actually grinding it out through his daily corporate job. After reading this book it is apparent why ‘The Fiefdom Syndrome’ used IBM for many of it’s same company in-fighting examples. So overall this book is a fast, straightforward, worthwhile business/leadership read.

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