The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father
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基本信息·出版社：HarperBusiness
·页码：340 页
·出版日期：2003年11月
·ISBN：0060014059
·条形码：9780060014056
·版本：第1版
·装帧：精装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：IBM家族
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Book Description
For an extraordinary fifty-seven-year period, one of the nation's 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.
We are accustomed to describing professional behavior as if men and women leave their emotions and vulnerabilities at home each day. In the case of the Watsons, filial and sibling strife could not be excluded from the office. In closely studying the desires and frustrations of the Watson family, eminent historian Richard S. Tedlow has produced something more than a family portrait or a company history. He has raised the nearly forbidden issue of the role of emotion in corporate life.
This book explores the interplay between the person- alities 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.
Tracing the family's idiosyncratic ability to cope with each other's weaknesses but not their strengths, The Watson Dynasty is a book for every person who ever went to work but didn't want to check his personality at the door.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 236 Width (mm) 160
编辑推荐 "From Richard Tedlow's insightful group portrait of seven American entrepreneurs...a rough formula for titanhood can be deduced." (Atlantic Monthly )^"Tedlow's 'passionate and fluid writing' makes Giants of Enterprise a pleasure to read." (Business Week )^"Tedlow's mastery as a historian.takes us to the heart of what is unique about the American economy." (Michael E. PorterBishop William Lawrence University ProfessorHarvard Business School )^One of the top ten business books of 2001 (Business Week )
目录 Prologue
Ch. 1 Defining Moments
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Ch. 2 The Early Years of the "Man of Men"
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Ch. 3 Watson and National Cash
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