Steve Hamm has been a business journalist for over 30 years. He was senior writer in BusinessWeek's information technology section after serving in their Silicon Valley bureau and was then an associate editor in New York. Prior to BusinessWeek, Hamm was an editor and writer for PC Week, the San Jose MercuryNews, the New Haven Register, and other publications. Hamm is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
And he now is a communication's strategist with IBM. It’s in that role that he joined with two other authors, Kevin Maney and Jeffrey M. O’Brien to write Making the World Work Better: The Ideas that Shaped a Century and a Company an examination of how IBM has contributed to the evolution of technology and the modern corporation over the past 100 years.
Imagine. A leading technology company that has survived and even thrived for over 100 years. And today IBM still remains a leader with its innovations in progressive workforce policies, new ideas of societal responsibility, global engagement, and the power of a deliberate creation of corporate culture.
It’s a fascinating story. And the story is told well by Steve and his co-authors. Here’s a 2-minute video from Steve on the book and how it is organized for maximum impact for the reader.
It’s a story that remains relevant and vital for businesses who aspire to surviving the next year, the next decade. Whether global giant or mom-and-pop, high-tech or not, IBM’s lessons of how to survive and thrive are ones any business can benefit from understanding.
We’ll talk about IBM’s legacy, its success at creating a corporate culture that can re-invent itself again and again over 100 years and still remain true to its founder’s mantra of “THINK”. We’ll also talk a bit about this project and its role in aligning and engaging IBM’s 400,000+ global employees with its culture.
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