Isbn: 9780471414636 - the maverick and his machine: thomas watson, sr. and the making of ibm (31 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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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Zustand: New. 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. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGB; KJ; KNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 238 x 43. Weight in Grams: 998. . 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Zustand: New. .a rich and thorough portrait that goes right back to turn-of-the-century America. (Business Voice, March 2003)The story of Watson s transformation of the disorganized, amorphous Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into steamlined, world-famous IBM.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 suppos ed coll usion 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. Kevin Maney is a nationally syndicated, award-winning technology columnist at USA Today, where he has been since 1985. He is a cover story writer whose story about IBM's bet-the-company move gained him national recognition. He was voted best technology columnist by the business journalism publication TJFR. Marketing Computers magazine has four times named him one of the most influential technology columnists. 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 a Business Week Bestseller. Residence: Clifton, VA . 'Watson was clearly a genius with a thousand helpers, yet he managed to build an institution that could transcend the genius.'-from the Foreword by Jim Collins 'Like all great biographers, Kevin Maney gives us an engaging story . . .his fascinating and definitive book about IBM's founder is replete with amazing revelations and character lessons that resonate today.'-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, bestselling author of Evolve! and When Giants Learn to Dance; Dies ist die erste umfassende und maßgebliche Biographie von Thomas J. Watson, dem sogenannten 'Vater der technologischen Revolution' und Gründer von IBM. 'The Maverick and His Machine' enthüllt einzigartige neue Erkenntnisse und gewährt tiefe Einblicke in Watsons Leben und Schaffen. Dieses aussergewöhnliche Buch entstand in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Watsons Familie. Sie gewährte Autor Kevin Maney exklusiven Zugang zu IBM Archiven und zu 340 Kartons mit Watsons ganz persönlichen Aufzeichnungen, die bislang unveröffentliche Informationen über Watson enthielten (darunter auch zu seiner kontroversen Beziehung zu Adolf Hitler). Kevin Maney ist ein anerkannter und einflussreicher Technologie Kolumnist der USA Today, der vielfach für seine journalistische Arbeit ausgezeichnet wurde. Er verfügt über erstklassige Kontakte zu Spitzenvertretern der Technologiebranche, wie z.B. zu Andy Grove und Scott McNealy. Mit einem Vorwort von Jim Collins, Bestsellerautor von 'Built to Last' und 'Good to Great'. Mit bislang unveröffentlichtem Fotomaterial. 'The Maverick and His Machine' - Die einzige maßgebliche, umfassende und aktuelle Biographie zu Thomas J. Watson. Sie enthüllt ganz neue Elemente von Watsons Charakter und zeichnet ein ganzheitliches Bild dieses legendären Unternehmers.…