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Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of 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.
Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist.
Internal evolution toward an industry revolution. As IBM’s new leader, Watson Jr. forcefully committed the company’s future to computers, establishing it as a pioneer in an industry that it would come to lead for decades. Making the shift to computers required a complex internal overhaul.
Thomas J. Watson Sr. created a model corporation for the 20th century. Guided by a set of human-centric principles, he redefined culture and management for generations of CEOs and reframed industry’s role as an indispensable partner in meeting society’s challenges.
May 11, 2018 · U.S. business executive Thomas J. Watson (1874 – 1956) assumed management of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924 and built it into one of the world's largest and most respected corporations. As a manufacturer of business machines and computers IBM, under Watson's innovative and inspired supervision, led a revolution ...
Dec 13, 2023 · But The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived, a briskly told biography of Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM’s mid-20th-century CEO, makes clear that the history of the company offers much more than an...
As such, IBM’s culture grew into one of striving to develop novel ideas, to tackle the grandest of challenges, and to exploit the greatest opportunities. “We believe an organization will stand out only if it is willing to take on seemingly impossible tasks,” said Thomas J. Watson Jr., the son of the first CEO who took up the cause ...
