The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471414638 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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These uncovered documents reveal new information about how Watson bet the company in the 1920s on tabulating machines-the forerunners to computers-and how he daringly beat the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures. He was voted best technology columnist by the business journalism publication TJFR. He is the author of Wiley's MEGAMEDIA SHAKEOUT: The Inside Story of the Leaders and the Losers in the Exploding Communications Industry, which was
Access to previously unexplored records has provided juicy raw material, including letters and internal memos, to bring America's first celebrity CEO to life in this warts-and-all biography. Watson (1874- 1956) saw the strategic value of corporate culture early and was protective of what he built; Maney argues that the strength of that culture later allowed IBM to survive the potentially devastating effects of Watson's personality flaws. Yet, as Maney makes clear in this timely tale of the man who made information into an industry and discovered the power of corporate culture, Watson wasn't just the best business story at the end of the 1930s; he had become a great American success story that captured the popular imagination.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. . From Publishers Weekly The story of Watson's transformation of the disorganized, amorphous Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into streamlined, world-famous IBM receiv
"What's on My Mind About Watson" according to HAL in NY. Biographies always have a slant; the subject was a "good" person or a "bad" person. While there are some writers who've painted Mr. Watson, Sr. as a "bad" person, this book is about a "good" person. The writing and editing is well done. It's a good read. If you like Thomas Watson, Sr., this book will probably help you to like him more. If you don't like Thomas Watson, Sr., this book will not change. Information Age Biography Francis McInerney The first of the new generation of Information Age biographers, Kevin Maney in his book on Thomas Watson Sr. sets a template for how Gates, Dell, and other industrialists will be written about when their time comes.The key contribution of each is the degree to which they cut the cost of information, allowing more and more of us increasing control of the means of information production with social a. One of the better business biographies I've encountered A Customer I've generally not been a huge fan of business biographiesthey can get very much bogged down in transactional specifics and company arcana, not to mention shoot-from-the-hip hindsight. This Watson biography, though, is very different and exceptionally engrossing, for two reasons: One, because Maney, whose USA Today columns are pretty much always highly entertaining, is a terrific storyteller, and t