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nl on July 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft’s Lost Decade

That might be the obvious path, but there is an obvious counter-example: IBM + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.

I guess at IBM is was obvious things had to change - it might take a while before MS gets to that point.

crag on July 28, 2012 [–]

An excellent example. And every MS exec should study the history of IBM. IBM a huge company managed to turn itself around.

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