Ellis Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-05078-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

"Charley Ellis has written a magnificent portrait, capturing theindomitable spirit of Joe Wilson and his instinctive understandingof the need for and commercial usefulness of a transforming imagingtechnology. Joe Wilson and his extraordinary team, which I had thegood fortune to first meet in 1960, epitomized the wonderfulobservation of George Bernard Shaw who said, 'Some look at thingsthat are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were and askwhy not?'
Xerox and xerography are not only a part of our vocabulary, butpart of our everyday life. Charley Ellis gives the reader apoignant understanding of just how this happened through the life,adventures, critical business decisions, and dreams of JosephWilson and a cadre of remarkable individuals.
This book will surely join the library of memorable biographiesthat capture the building of America into a risk-tolerant,technologically sophisticated, idea-oriented society that thrivesby understanding what Charles Darwin really said:
'Survival will be neither to the strongest of the species, norto the most intelligent, but to those most adaptable tochange.'"
--Frederick Frank, Vice Chairman, Lehman Brothers Inc.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellis, Charles D.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mulcahy, Anne M.

Podolny, Joel M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Anne M. Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO of XeroxCorporation.
Foreword by Joel Podolny, Dean, Yale School ofManagement.
1 Early Years.
2 Peggy.
3 The Thirties.
4 Years of Struggle.
5 Chet Carlson.
6 Battelle.
7 Contact--Just Barely.
8 Sol Linowitz.
9 Toward Xerox.
10 The University.
11 Worst of Times, Best of Times.
12 Joe Wilson.
13 IBM, RCA, and GE.
14 Gathering Strength in Finance.
15 Building the Organization.
16 Going International.
17 Going It Alone.
18 5¢.
19 The 914.
20 Go!
21 Getting on Message.
22 Xerox: Zoom-Zoom.
23 Fuji-Xerox.
24 Challenges of Success.
25 Minister Florence.
26 LIFE.
27 Public Service.
28 Winding Down.
29 No Longer CEO.
30 At the Rockefellers'.
Afterword.
Joe Wilson: In His Own Words.
Acknowledgments.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

CHARLES D. ELLIS is a recognized expert on business management. For thirty years, he was managing partner of Greenwich Associates, the leading worldwide strategy consultant to the financial services industry, which he founded and where he developed close working relationships with senior executives at most of the major investment firms in North America, Asia, and Europe. His other activities include teaching the Investment Management course at both Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School; chairing CFA Institute, the investment professionals' organization; serving as a Director of Vanguard; advising some of the world's largest investing institutions; and chairing the investment committees at the Whitehead Institute and Yale University. He is one of ten individuals recognized by the investment profession for lifetime leadership. Among his eleven prior books is Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence (Wiley).