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The Watson dynasty : the fiery reign and troubled legacy of IBM's founding father and son / Richard S. Tedlow.
- Title
- The Watson dynasty : the fiery reign and troubled legacy of IBM's founding father and son / Richard S. Tedlow.
- Author
- Tedlow, Richard S.
- Publication
- New York : HarperBusiness, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- x, 340 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "For an extraordinary fifty-seven-year period, one of the nations' largest and fastest-growing companies was run by two men who were flesh and blood. The chief executives of the International Business Machines Corporation from 1914 until 1971 were Thomas J. Watson and Thomas J. Watson, father and son. That great corporation bears the imprint of both men - their ambitions and their strengths - but it also bears the consequences of a family that was in near-constant conflict." "Sometimes wrong but never in doubt, both Watsons had clear - and farsighted - visions of what their company could become. They also had volcanic tempers. Their fights with each other combined with their commitment to leadership and excellence made IBM one of the most rewarding, yet gut-clutching firms to work for in the history of American business." "This book explores the interplay between the personalities of these two extraordinary men and the firm they created. Both Watsons had deeply held beliefs about what a corporation is and should be. These ideas helped make "Big Blue" the bluest of blue-chip stocks during the Watsons' tenure. These very beliefs, however, also sowed the seeds for IBM's disasters in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the company had lost sight of the original meaning behind many of the practices each man put into place."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-325) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Defining Moments -- Ch. 2. The Early Years of the "Man of Men" -- Ch. 3. Watson and National Cash -- Ch. 4. Crime and Punishment -- Ch. 5. High Water and Hell -- Ch. 6. Down and Out -- Ch. 7. Terrible Tommy Watson -- Ch. 8. Thomas J. Watson Sr. in 1893 and Thomas J. Watson Jr. in 1933 -- Ch. 9. The Searing Insight -- Ch. 10. The Watson Way -- Ch. 11. The Big Payoff -- Ch. 12. High Time to Grow Up -- Ch. 13. Watson at War -- Ch. 14. Father, Son, and Charley Kirk -- Ch. 15. God Damn You, Old Man! -- Ch. 16. Siblings: A Brief Introduction -- Ch. 17. Awakening the Electronic Brain -- Ch. 18. Death of a Salesman -- Ch. 19. On His Own -- Ch. 20. The New Thomas Watson's New IBM -- Ch. 21. Threats from Without and from Within -- Ch. 22. The System/360 -- Ch. 23. The Destruction of Dick Watson -- Ch. 24. Denouement for Dick and for Jane -- Ch. 25. Denouement for Tom -- Ch. 26. Denouement for IBM.
- ISBN
- 0060014059
- LCCN
- 2003051145
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries