Thomas J. Watson Sr.: "To Make a Business Grow - Grow Men"

Thomas J. Watson Sr.: Grow Individuals to Grow Your Business

​This video is from an article written by Thomas J. Watson Sr. for "System, The Magazine of Business" that was published in August, 1926. The theme of Watson Sr.'s article is that individuals ... men or women ... can not function properly if executives expect them to function as "automatons."

Thomas J. Watson Sr. wrote, in part, the following:

"When I became the head of this company in 1914, it was suggested that I dispense with a number of men connected with the executive staff. That is one thing I did not do; that is the one thing no thinking person in the same position should do. Yet it is the course of least resistance which some executives have followed upon coming into a business under similar circumstances - while stockholders paid the bill."

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