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When Peter E. Greulich started his research on Tom Watson and IBM in 2011, he saw this entry in the IBM Annual Reports: "The Watson Fund for Supplementing the IBM Retirement Plan." He, of course, thought it was money set aside for Tom Watson's retirement. Isn't that what most 21st Century Chief Executives would and have done?
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of how IBM's corner office has changed in this new century. That which one exemplary 20th Century chief executive made possible for his employees, three 21st Century chief executives—two men and one woman—have exploited to pump up profits and earnings per share for personal gain.
This is not a problem with the system of capitalism. It is a problem with the internal moral character of IBM's leadership. Peter E. Greulich
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“Many a man in charge of others snarls at his employees simply because the man who held the job before him and under whom he was trained had cultivated the fine art of snarling.
Today, wouldn't we call such an environment a corporate "culture" of snarling? And doesn't this concept apply in all aspects of life: economic, political, spiritual, and even ... parental?
Peter E. Greulich As our research of Tom Watson Sr. enters the year 1944, we have updated the information of "firsts" for the women of IBM. World War II was raging in full in Europe and Asia. U.S and Canadian IBM men and women were putting their lives on the line in both arenas and their spouses and children were doing their best to support them in the conflict back home.
This is the third in a series of reviews of Ray Stannard Baker's "Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters." Of the eight-volume biography of the former President of the United States, we have now read and reviewed three volumes:
Here is a short excerpt from one overseas review a year after it was released:
“Books of the Day,” J. A. Hobson, The Manchester Guardian, August 26, 1938
In 1943, Thomas J. Watson Sr. and IBM ran well over 1,000 war-bond advertisements across the United States encouraging Americans to buy bonds to support the World War II war effort. This does not include an additional set of war-bond campaign advertisements that also ran across Canada.
Select the image or the following link to read about these war-bond campaigns and the timing of their release: [IBM's War-Bond Advertisements Campaign].
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Peter E. GreulichPete has been studying IBM and early American corporate history since his retirement in 2011. These are his thoughts and musings, and of those whose biographies he has read with links to articles and book reviews on this website. Archives
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