01296nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_164155 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 29.95 338.761004 M275 Maney, Kevin The Maverick and his machine : Thomas Watson, Sr., and the making of IBM Kevin Maney Hoboken John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003 The story of Watson's transformation of the disorganized, amorphous Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into streamlined, world-famous IBM receives a spirited telling by Maney, a USA Today technology columnist. 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. Businessmen Biography United States AThu, DTHTrang, Giang Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ