9780471414636 - The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM di Maney (53 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Large quarto in glossy black color pictorial DJ; xxv, 485 p., 16 p. of plates: ill.; 24 cm. "IBM is one of the most successful companies in American history; it ushered in the Information Age and dominated the infomation industry for more than seventy years. Yet the builder of IBM has never been thoroughly examined and brought to life. Now, journalist Kevin Maney, using thousands of documents never before made public, reveals the lasting achievement of the man who forever changed the world of business." "Watson was the rare businessman who transcended business. His fame and power echoes that of Microsoft's Bill Gates today and Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller in an earlier age. Watson, in fact, created the role of the celebrity CEO. On a grander scale, Watson invented the modern concept of the corporate culture, and proved its power to make a company great." "Watson's story plays out on a global stage, intersecting with the major events and people of his time. A business failure as a young man, he rocketed to the top levels of National Cash Register before a federal antitrust trial nearly brought down NCR and seemingly crushed his career. The moment forever shaped Watson's business sensibilities and drove him to reinvent the American corporation. In 1914, he took charge of a struggling little entity called the Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company, infused it with his values, his competitive drive, and his personality quirks, and transformed it into International Business Machines - IBM." "Over and over, Watson made daring bets and won, each time vaulting IBM to a new level of size and power. In the 1920s, when information wasn't obviously going to become a big industry, he bet IBM's future on tabulating machines - the mechanical forerunners to computers." "In the Depression of the 1930s, Watson pumped money into R & D and kept factories running while most companies slashed budgets and jobs. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal created massive information demands, IBM was ready to fill them. The company's growth exploded, and Watson became the highest-paid American." "With exceptional detail that takes the reader inside business meetings in Watson's office and into his relationships with presidents, business leaders, employees, and family members, Maney tracks Watson's rise from obscure cash register salesman to household name. Maney examines the profound impact Watson had on modern companies, the business lessons learned, and the personal motivations that spurred Watson's frantic energy and inexhaustible drive for success. The Maverick and His Machine for the first time reveals the true character of the man whose visionary leadership laid the foundation for the computer revolution."--BOOK JACKET. Contents: Maverick kindling -- Lit by Flint -- Mess spelled C-T-R -- Bringing up baby IBM -- Daring and luck -- Friends, heroes, sycophants -- Enemies and delusions -- King and castle -- Watson the second -- Watson's war -- Old man, new age -- World conquest -- Maverick and his humanity -- Generations after. Fine in Fine DJ ; as new. A very nice copy. First edition, first printing (full number line).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($29.95 price intact). Published by Wiley, 2003. Octavo. Black boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 485 pages. ISBN: 9780471414636. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 485pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($29.95) is fresh and bright with no creases, tears or chipping. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Fine. First Edition. (1st edition, 1st printing) Thicker, larger book, black covers, silver lettering very bright on spine, 485 pages including glossy photo section. DJ glossy with color portrait of Watson on front, praise at gray center back. DJ has very tiny nick at spine top left. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Printing [Stated]. xxv, [1], 485, [1] pages. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear, tears. chips, soiling, and front flap is creased. The author writes that he is a columnist, essayist, and author. He takes complex ideas and make them accessible and interesting, and put them in context with technology, history and society. He writes for Newsweek. He has been a contributor to Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company and other magazines. Before that he worked at USA Today for 22 years, much of it as the newspaper's technology columnist. Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956. 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. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world's first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to hundreds of boxes of Watson's long-forgotten papers, and he has produced the only complete picture of Watson the man and Watson the legendary business leader. 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 documents also lead to new insights concerning the controversy that has followed Watson: his supposed collusion with Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. Maney paints a vivid portrait of Watson, uncovers his motivations, and offers needed context on his mammoth role in the course of modern business history. Jim Collins, author of the bestsellers Good to Great and Built to Last, writes in the Foreword to Maney's book: "Leaders like Watson are like forces of nature-almost terrifying in their release of energy and unpredictable volatility, but underneath they still adhere to certain patterns and principles. The patterns and principles might be hard to see amidst the melee, but they are there nonetheless. It takes a gifted person of insight to highlight those patterns, and that is exactly what Kevin Maney does in this book." The Maverick and His Machine also includes never-before-published photos of Watson from IBM's archives, showing Watson in greater detail than any book ever has before. Essential reading for every businessperson, tech junkie, and IBM follower, the book is also full of the kind of personal detail and reconstructed events that make it a page-turning story for general readers. The Maverick and the Machine is poised to be one of the most important business biographies in years.

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